https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cold-case-true-crime--7191521enTrue CrimeCopyright OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENThttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/2ab900558a2a8917b3499d96bdb17d54.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/cold-case-true-crime--7191521Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:07:23 +0000OBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENTOBOMEDIA ENTERTAINMENTcreators@obomedia.comUnresolved DNA leads, fading witness memories, and legal blind spots are where Cold Case True Crime starts. Each episode pulls apart forensic records, genealogical breakthroughs and investigative detail to reopen files that time nearly closed. This...falseepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-glove-in-the-drain-how-dna-broke-a-31-year-silence--73055889
Fear and relief collide: a latex glove turned inside out, stained with industrial Permaseal, sat beneath Sharon Bailey’s shoulder blade for 31 years before DNA finally pointed investigators toward a man who had been in the building two days earlier-so how did that glove end up in a drainage channel one block from her apartment in July 1993?

In this episode, we lay out the facts of Sharon Bailey’s last night, the evidence preserved in a freezer, and the breakthrough steps that connected a state cold-case grant, a genealogist, and distant home-DNA uploads to a retired contractor-could a single inverted glove and a trace of refrigerant sealant finally close the case?

Person: Sharon Bailey
Date: July 9, 1993
Location: Dellard, Illinois
Item: Latex glove (inside out) with orange-rust Permaseal residue
Age: Sharon was 24 years old

- The glove was found at 6:15 AM on July 9, 1993 by Ruth Burns, a 51-year-old retired school librarian.
- Sharon left a coworker’s apartment at approximately 9:45 PM on July 8, 1993 and was one block from her building when she disappeared.
- The interior stain was identified as Permaseal, an industrial refrigerant sealant distributed only to licensed HVAC contractors.
- Three employees had access to Building C’s service entrance; two were cleared quickly, the third-Ralph Vickers, 31 at the time-cooperated with detectives and was not arrested then.
- In summer 2024 a forensic genealogist on a state cold-case grant received a database match within 72 hours after a home DNA kit was uploaded by a 67-year-old in Tucson and another relative in Fort Wayne used a different last name for 21 years.

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Fear and relief collide: a latex glove turned inside out, stained with industrial Permaseal, sat beneath Sharon Bailey’s shoulder blade for 31 years before DNA finally pointed investigators toward a man who had been in the building two days earlier-so how did that glove end up in a drainage channel one block from her apartment in July 1993?

In this episode, we lay out the facts of Sharon Bailey’s last night, the evidence preserved in a freezer, and the breakthrough steps that connected a state cold-case grant, a genealogist, and distant home-DNA uploads to a retired contractor-could a single inverted glove and a trace of refrigerant sealant finally close the case?

Person: Sharon Bailey
Date: July 9, 1993
Location: Dellard, Illinois
Item: Latex glove (inside out) with orange-rust Permaseal residue
Age: Sharon was 24 years old

- The glove was found at 6:15 AM on July 9, 1993 by Ruth Burns, a 51-year-old retired school librarian.
- Sharon left a coworker’s apartment at approximately 9:45 PM on July 8, 1993 and was one block from her building when she disappeared.
- The interior stain was identified as Permaseal, an industrial refrigerant sealant distributed only to licensed HVAC contractors.
- Three employees had access to Building C’s service entrance; two were cleared quickly, the third-Ralph Vickers, 31 at the time-cooperated with detectives and was not arrested then.
- In summer 2024 a forensic genealogist on a state cold-case grant received a database match within 72 hours after a home DNA kit was uploaded by a 67-year-old in Tucson and another relative in Fort Wayne used a different last name for 21 years.

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In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the morning Diane found the unlocked house through the decades-long cold case and the moment modern DNA testing and genealogy reopened everything. How did a partial profile from beneath April’s fingernails, a plumber’s crew note, and one genealogist’s persistence lead to answers?

Person: April Dempsey
Date: June 9, 1994
Location: 4 Aldercroft Lane, Tanner Falls, Ohio
Status: Cold for 28 years; DNA reanalyzed in 2019
Investigator: Linda Marshall (Harker County Cold Case Unit)

- April was 48 years old in spring 1994 and had lived at 4 Aldercroft Lane since 1983.
- Diane Henderson found the unlocked house and lights on the morning of June 9, 1994 after April missed her Wednesday call.
- Investigators recovered a degraded partial DNA profile from beneath April’s fingernails and stored it in a forensic freezer for 25 years.
- Hadley Plumbing and Mechanical had performed repair work at 4 Aldercroft Lane in March 1994; no individual worker was interviewed alone.
- In 2019 Linda Marshall requested reanalysis using short tandem repeat technology and the degraded partial profile returned as a complete profile.

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In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the morning Diane found the unlocked house through the decades-long cold case and the moment modern DNA testing and genealogy reopened everything. How did a partial profile from beneath April’s fingernails, a plumber’s crew note, and one genealogist’s persistence lead to answers?

Person: April Dempsey
Date: June 9, 1994
Location: 4 Aldercroft Lane, Tanner Falls, Ohio
Status: Cold for 28 years; DNA reanalyzed in 2019
Investigator: Linda Marshall (Harker County Cold Case Unit)

- April was 48 years old in spring 1994 and had lived at 4 Aldercroft Lane since 1983.
- Diane Henderson found the unlocked house and lights on the morning of June 9, 1994 after April missed her Wednesday call.
- Investigators recovered a degraded partial DNA profile from beneath April’s fingernails and stored it in a forensic freezer for 25 years.
- Hadley Plumbing and Mechanical had performed repair work at 4 Aldercroft Lane in March 1994; no individual worker was interviewed alone.
- In 2019 Linda Marshall requested reanalysis using short tandem repeat technology and the degraded partial profile returned as a complete profile.

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A man found face-down in a drainage easement, one brown oxford still on his right foot and the left foot bare - his wallet with $42 and a Sunoco card untouched - and a blunt-force wound to the back of his skull. Thirty-seven years passed with a dried blood sample from a parking-structure wall and a missing shoe as the only stubborn clues; what finally shifted the case decades later?

In this episode, we lay out the known facts of Roger Rafferty’s disappearance and death, the scene found by Terry Sloane on May 14, 1983, and the stalled investigation that followed, asking whether inventory disputes, a suspect seen nearby, or the unidentified blood sample held the answer that prosecutors could not prove.

Person: Roger Rafferty
Date found: May 14, 1983
Location: drainage easement behind the Millhaven Civic Center
Status: deceased; cause blunt-force trauma to posterior skull
Investigator: Detective Frank Noonan

- Body estimated to have been there between six and ten days when found.
- Wallet contained forty-two dollars and a Sunoco credit card; nothing reported stolen.
- Roger was thirty-one and had worked four years as parts coordinator at Fenton Brothers Agricultural.
- A 1979 Ford pickup belonging to Roger was found two blocks away with key in ignition and driver door unlocked.
- A blood sample from a parking-structure wall sixty feet from the easement did not match Roger’s blood type.

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A man found face-down in a drainage easement, one brown oxford still on his right foot and the left foot bare - his wallet with $42 and a Sunoco card untouched - and a blunt-force wound to the back of his skull. Thirty-seven years passed with a dried blood sample from a parking-structure wall and a missing shoe as the only stubborn clues; what finally shifted the case decades later?

In this episode, we lay out the known facts of Roger Rafferty’s disappearance and death, the scene found by Terry Sloane on May 14, 1983, and the stalled investigation that followed, asking whether inventory disputes, a suspect seen nearby, or the unidentified blood sample held the answer that prosecutors could not prove.

Person: Roger Rafferty
Date found: May 14, 1983
Location: drainage easement behind the Millhaven Civic Center
Status: deceased; cause blunt-force trauma to posterior skull
Investigator: Detective Frank Noonan

- Body estimated to have been there between six and ten days when found.
- Wallet contained forty-two dollars and a Sunoco credit card; nothing reported stolen.
- Roger was thirty-one and had worked four years as parts coordinator at Fenton Brothers Agricultural.
- A 1979 Ford pickup belonging to Roger was found two blocks away with key in ignition and driver door unlocked.
- A blood sample from a parking-structure wall sixty feet from the easement did not match Roger’s blood type.

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Fear and disbelief collide: an evidence envelope sat in a drainage ditch all winter, its ink bled but five words still readable - "Hunter - hair - right hand - do not destroy." Four strands of dark brown hair, root-bulbs intact, had been clenched in Dennis Hunter’s fist for thirty years; how did that envelope travel from a retired sergeant’s garage to a culvert and finally into a dog’s mouth, and who did those hairs belong to?

In this episode, we follow the chain of events laid out in the case file and witness how ordinary, accidental steps returned a piece of evidence that had been missing for decades. Listen to how the envelope resurfaced, what it contained, and why that single physical item reopened the question of who killed Dennis Hunter.

Person: Dennis Hunter
Date: April 8, 1994
Location: Ridgeway Fabricating, west Kellum, Tennessee
Status: Cold case reopened (evidence recovered April 2024)
Investigator: Sergeant Donald Frey

- Dennis Hunter was 51 years old and had worked at Ridgeway Fabricating for 23 years.
- He died from a single blow to the base of his skull on the night of April 8, 1994.
- Four strands of dark brown hair with root-bulbs intact were found clenched in his right hand.
- Sergeant Donald Frey signed out the evidence and stored the envelope in his garage for 17 years.
- In April 2024 a walker’s golden retriever retrieved a water-stained brown paper envelope from a drainage ditch containing the original glassine pouch stamped April 1994.

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Fear and disbelief collide: an evidence envelope sat in a drainage ditch all winter, its ink bled but five words still readable - "Hunter - hair - right hand - do not destroy." Four strands of dark brown hair, root-bulbs intact, had been clenched in Dennis Hunter’s fist for thirty years; how did that envelope travel from a retired sergeant’s garage to a culvert and finally into a dog’s mouth, and who did those hairs belong to?

In this episode, we follow the chain of events laid out in the case file and witness how ordinary, accidental steps returned a piece of evidence that had been missing for decades. Listen to how the envelope resurfaced, what it contained, and why that single physical item reopened the question of who killed Dennis Hunter.

Person: Dennis Hunter
Date: April 8, 1994
Location: Ridgeway Fabricating, west Kellum, Tennessee
Status: Cold case reopened (evidence recovered April 2024)
Investigator: Sergeant Donald Frey

- Dennis Hunter was 51 years old and had worked at Ridgeway Fabricating for 23 years.
- He died from a single blow to the base of his skull on the night of April 8, 1994.
- Four strands of dark brown hair with root-bulbs intact were found clenched in his right hand.
- Sergeant Donald Frey signed out the evidence and stored the envelope in his garage for 17 years.
- In April 2024 a walker’s golden retriever retrieved a water-stained brown paper envelope from a drainage ditch containing the original glassine pouch stamped April 1994.

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A running Seiko wristwatch sat two feet underwater for thirty-one days and still kept perfect time - despite its owner being buried upstream. How did that watch end up exactly one and a half miles downstream from a Sycamore Bend Road bridge, and what secret did its survival hold about a killing that would stay unsolved for twenty-one years?

In this episode, we tell the story of Sherry Quinn, the missing watch, the cold case file that sat dormant, and the forensic genealogist who revisited an incomplete DNA profile in August 2021; could an overlooked wristwatch and a prepaid phone trace finally point to a killer?

Person: Sherry Quinn
Date: March 7-9, 2002
Location: Colter Creek / Sycamore Bend Road, Farwell, Tennessee
Status: Case remained unresolved until genetic genealogy review in August 2021
Event: Gold-tone Seiko wristwatch found running after 31 days submerged

- The Seiko wristwatch was underwater for 31 days and remained running when retrieved.
- Sherry Quinn was 44 years old and worked nights, leaving through the back door at 6:15 a.m. daily.
- Her body was recovered March 9, 2002, in a drainage channel about 1.5 miles downstream from Sycamore Bend Road bridge.
- Investigators recorded six incoming calls from one unregistered number in the 14 days before March 7, 2002.
- The prepaid phone linked to those calls was activated at a convenience store in Calloway, Tennessee, 22 miles from Farwell.

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A running Seiko wristwatch sat two feet underwater for thirty-one days and still kept perfect time - despite its owner being buried upstream. How did that watch end up exactly one and a half miles downstream from a Sycamore Bend Road bridge, and what secret did its survival hold about a killing that would stay unsolved for twenty-one years?

In this episode, we tell the story of Sherry Quinn, the missing watch, the cold case file that sat dormant, and the forensic genealogist who revisited an incomplete DNA profile in August 2021; could an overlooked wristwatch and a prepaid phone trace finally point to a killer?

Person: Sherry Quinn
Date: March 7-9, 2002
Location: Colter Creek / Sycamore Bend Road, Farwell, Tennessee
Status: Case remained unresolved until genetic genealogy review in August 2021
Event: Gold-tone Seiko wristwatch found running after 31 days submerged

- The Seiko wristwatch was underwater for 31 days and remained running when retrieved.
- Sherry Quinn was 44 years old and worked nights, leaving through the back door at 6:15 a.m. daily.
- Her body was recovered March 9, 2002, in a drainage channel about 1.5 miles downstream from Sycamore Bend Road bridge.
- Investigators recorded six incoming calls from one unregistered number in the 14 days before March 7, 2002.
- The prepaid phone linked to those calls was activated at a convenience store in Calloway, Tennessee, 22 miles from Farwell.

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Cold, clay, and a watch stuck in a field for thirty-two years: a Seiko with its date window frozen at the seventh and the engraving G.R., '86 turned a routine survey into the hinge that reopened a murder. How did a tiny watch, found in a cup of hard clay and photographed by a county surveyor, become the single object that pulled together a vanished woman, a decades-old evidence box, and a DNA lead no one expected?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a February 11, 2019 field find back to the night Gail Roberts disappeared on February 7, 1987, and through the investigative threads-witness interviews, a preserved evidence kit, and a partial touch-DNA profile-that eventually converged. What chain of preserved evidence and overlooked details allowed thirty-two years of fragments to align into an answer?

Person: Gail Roberts
Date: February 7, 1987
Location: Old Kellum Road (car) and drainage ditch 300 yards away
Find Date: February 11, 2019
Evidence: Seiko watch engraved "G.R., '86" with date window frozen at 7

- The Seiko watch was found by county surveyor Janet Wallace in a frozen fallow field on February 11, 2019.
- The watch had been sitting in a cup of hard clay for thirty-two years and was intact with bracelet clasped.
- Gail Roberts, age 28, disappeared on the evening of February 7, 1987; her car was found the next morning and her body that afternoon.
- The drainage ditch where Gail was found was approximately 300 yards from her car; time of death placed between 7 and 11 p.m.
- A partial touch-DNA profile from Gail's coat collar, collected in 1987, was preserved in a state crime lab freezer for thirty-two years.

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Cold, clay, and a watch stuck in a field for thirty-two years: a Seiko with its date window frozen at the seventh and the engraving G.R., '86 turned a routine survey into the hinge that reopened a murder. How did a tiny watch, found in a cup of hard clay and photographed by a county surveyor, become the single object that pulled together a vanished woman, a decades-old evidence box, and a DNA lead no one expected?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from a February 11, 2019 field find back to the night Gail Roberts disappeared on February 7, 1987, and through the investigative threads-witness interviews, a preserved evidence kit, and a partial touch-DNA profile-that eventually converged. What chain of preserved evidence and overlooked details allowed thirty-two years of fragments to align into an answer?

Person: Gail Roberts
Date: February 7, 1987
Location: Old Kellum Road (car) and drainage ditch 300 yards away
Find Date: February 11, 2019
Evidence: Seiko watch engraved "G.R., '86" with date window frozen at 7

- The Seiko watch was found by county surveyor Janet Wallace in a frozen fallow field on February 11, 2019.
- The watch had been sitting in a cup of hard clay for thirty-two years and was intact with bracelet clasped.
- Gail Roberts, age 28, disappeared on the evening of February 7, 1987; her car was found the next morning and her body that afternoon.
- The drainage ditch where Gail was found was approximately 300 yards from her car; time of death placed between 7 and 11 p.m.
- A partial touch-DNA profile from Gail's coat collar, collected in 1987, was preserved in a state crime lab freezer for thirty-two years.

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A truck driver noticed a septic tank in the wrong place, and that small mismatch unlocked a body buried four feet underground that had been hidden for thirteen years. A swab taken from a Buick LeSabre door handle in January 2009 sat in a freezer until genetic genealogy and preserved evidence finally connected the dots - but how did a plumber's work order become the key to a murder trial?

In this episode, we walk through the chain of preserved evidence, the investigative decisions made over more than a decade, and the moment a misplaced septic tank work order redirected a cold case. What exactly linked a yellowed driver's license buried in Illinois soil to a man in a Decatur duplex and the woman who had been missing since 2009?

Person: Christine Schmidt
Date: January 15, 2009
Location: Brentfield, Missouri
Event: Buick LeSabre found wiped clean at park-and-ride off Interstate 55
Status: Partial DNA profile preserved for 13 years

- Christine Schmidt turned 52 in fall 2008 and had retired from medical billing about a year before she disappeared.
- Christine was last seen leaving for dinner on January 15, 2009; her car remained in her driveway.
- A Buick LeSabre (2005 model) was found six days later at a park-and-ride off Interstate 55 with its interior wiped clean.
- A technician swabbed the driver's side door pull handle in January 2009 and the sample was sealed and frozen for 13 years.
- Victor Mabry voluntarily provided a cheek swab in 2010; his DNA did not match the preserved profile.

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A truck driver noticed a septic tank in the wrong place, and that small mismatch unlocked a body buried four feet underground that had been hidden for thirteen years. A swab taken from a Buick LeSabre door handle in January 2009 sat in a freezer until genetic genealogy and preserved evidence finally connected the dots - but how did a plumber's work order become the key to a murder trial?

In this episode, we walk through the chain of preserved evidence, the investigative decisions made over more than a decade, and the moment a misplaced septic tank work order redirected a cold case. What exactly linked a yellowed driver's license buried in Illinois soil to a man in a Decatur duplex and the woman who had been missing since 2009?

Person: Christine Schmidt
Date: January 15, 2009
Location: Brentfield, Missouri
Event: Buick LeSabre found wiped clean at park-and-ride off Interstate 55
Status: Partial DNA profile preserved for 13 years

- Christine Schmidt turned 52 in fall 2008 and had retired from medical billing about a year before she disappeared.
- Christine was last seen leaving for dinner on January 15, 2009; her car remained in her driveway.
- A Buick LeSabre (2005 model) was found six days later at a park-and-ride off Interstate 55 with its interior wiped clean.
- A technician swabbed the driver's side door pull handle in January 2009 and the sample was sealed and frozen for 13 years.
- Victor Mabry voluntarily provided a cheek swab in 2010; his DNA did not match the preserved profile.

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The frozen blood vial sat at -80°C for 31 years after a clerical error kept it mislabeled - and the cells never died. A man who vanished after a Thursday dinner, a tarp with a faded stenciled number, and a one-minute pay phone call forty-seven minutes after the last sighting: which thread ties them to a killer?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Craig Stewart’s last confirmed sighting to the discovery in the drainage ditch and the clerical mistake that preserved a blood sample for decades, asking whether that preserved evidence finally answers what Craig saw and who killed him.

Person: Craig Stewart
Date: December 5-19, 1991
Location: drainage ditch three miles east of town
Event: pay phone call at 10:04 PM lasting less than one minute
Status: blood vial mislabeled and stored at -80°C for 31 years

- Craig Stewart was 22 years old in 1991 and worked as a press brake operator on the south side of town.
- Craig missed his regular Thursday dinner with his mother on December 5, 1991, and was last seen at 9:17 PM leaving his apartment.
- Melissa Brown found Craig’s body on December 19, 1991, wrapped under a dark green contractor-grade tarp weighted with rocks in a drainage ditch.
- The medical examiner ruled cause of death blunt-force trauma to the posterior skull; no weapon was recovered.
- A pay phone at the Route Nine gas station placed a call to Craig’s home at 10:04 PM on the night of December 14, 1991, lasting less than one minute.

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The frozen blood vial sat at -80°C for 31 years after a clerical error kept it mislabeled - and the cells never died. A man who vanished after a Thursday dinner, a tarp with a faded stenciled number, and a one-minute pay phone call forty-seven minutes after the last sighting: which thread ties them to a killer?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Craig Stewart’s last confirmed sighting to the discovery in the drainage ditch and the clerical mistake that preserved a blood sample for decades, asking whether that preserved evidence finally answers what Craig saw and who killed him.

Person: Craig Stewart
Date: December 5-19, 1991
Location: drainage ditch three miles east of town
Event: pay phone call at 10:04 PM lasting less than one minute
Status: blood vial mislabeled and stored at -80°C for 31 years

- Craig Stewart was 22 years old in 1991 and worked as a press brake operator on the south side of town.
- Craig missed his regular Thursday dinner with his mother on December 5, 1991, and was last seen at 9:17 PM leaving his apartment.
- Melissa Brown found Craig’s body on December 19, 1991, wrapped under a dark green contractor-grade tarp weighted with rocks in a drainage ditch.
- The medical examiner ruled cause of death blunt-force trauma to the posterior skull; no weapon was recovered.
- A pay phone at the Route Nine gas station placed a call to Craig’s home at 10:04 PM on the night of December 14, 1991, lasting less than one minute.

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A forgotten postage stamp sealed in a paper evidence bag sat in cold storage for three decades until someone tested its adhesive and generated a partial DNA lead that reopened a 31-year-old strangulation homicide. How did a single stamp, an old partial DNA profile, and a retired detective's home file finally turn into a conviction?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning Dawn Walker was found to the years the case sat cold, and trace how a contracted analyst revisiting a four-hundred-page file spotted the overlooked envelopes that changed everything. What exactly on page eleven shifted the investigation after thirty-one years?

Person: Dawn Walker
Age: 37
Date: November 14, 1991
Location: 414 Caldwell Drive, Linden Parish
Cause of death: Strangulation

- The paper carrier found the house with every interior light on at approximately 6:40 a.m.
- The furnace breaker had been switched off and the interior temperature at 7:12 a.m. was 41°F while outside was 28°F.
- Dawn Walker’s glass of orange juice showed ice crystals consistent with cooling below 34°F, supporting a time-of-death window between 11:30 p.m. Nov 13 and 1:30 a.m. Nov 14.
- Detective Lou Farris’s active investigation produced a file of approximately 400 pages before the case went cold by spring 1993.
- In June 2022, 54-year-old Gordon Novak began reviewing the four-hundred-page file and reached the scene report noting two envelopes on page eleven.

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A forgotten postage stamp sealed in a paper evidence bag sat in cold storage for three decades until someone tested its adhesive and generated a partial DNA lead that reopened a 31-year-old strangulation homicide. How did a single stamp, an old partial DNA profile, and a retired detective's home file finally turn into a conviction?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning Dawn Walker was found to the years the case sat cold, and trace how a contracted analyst revisiting a four-hundred-page file spotted the overlooked envelopes that changed everything. What exactly on page eleven shifted the investigation after thirty-one years?

Person: Dawn Walker
Age: 37
Date: November 14, 1991
Location: 414 Caldwell Drive, Linden Parish
Cause of death: Strangulation

- The paper carrier found the house with every interior light on at approximately 6:40 a.m.
- The furnace breaker had been switched off and the interior temperature at 7:12 a.m. was 41°F while outside was 28°F.
- Dawn Walker’s glass of orange juice showed ice crystals consistent with cooling below 34°F, supporting a time-of-death window between 11:30 p.m. Nov 13 and 1:30 a.m. Nov 14.
- Detective Lou Farris’s active investigation produced a file of approximately 400 pages before the case went cold by spring 1993.
- In June 2022, 54-year-old Gordon Novak began reviewing the four-hundred-page file and reached the scene report noting two envelopes on page eleven.

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A single size seven blue canvas sneaker, knotted to a thirty-one-year-old hospital ID bracelet dated October 14, 1991, was unearthed from a frozen ditch on February 9, 2023 - and it belonged to Emily Porter, who had been dead for thirty-one years; how did one shoe end up there while her apartment door was locked from the inside? What connects a locked deadbolt, a shoe in a ditch, and a police report filed a year earlier that named the method, vehicle, and location type of a crime?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of discoveries from the roadside find to the decades-long investigation, including the photograph of Emily's locked apartment door and the trail that led from a refrigerator-preserved skin cell to closure, asking whether the missing piece that eluded Detective Arthur Lemke for his entire career was finally found.

Person: Emily Porter
Date of discovery: February 9, 2023
Admission date on bracelet: October 14, 1991
Age at death: 62
Investigator: Arthur Lemke

- A road-grader operator named William Collins found a blue canvas sneaker in a frozen ditch along Route Nine connector on February 9, 2023.
- The sneaker was size seven and had a hospital ID bracelet with an admission date of October 14, 1991, knotted through the left eyelet.
- Emily Porter was last seen leaving her apartment at approximately 7:15 p.m. on October 17, 1991; her body was found eleven days later in a culvert three miles east of Route Nine.
- Emily's apartment deadbolt was locked from the inside on October 21, 1991, with her only key still hanging on a hook inside the door photograph pinned in the case folder.
- Emily had worked as a licensed practical nurse at Harlan County General for twenty-two years and volunteered every Thursday at Grover's Mill food pantry for eleven years.

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A single size seven blue canvas sneaker, knotted to a thirty-one-year-old hospital ID bracelet dated October 14, 1991, was unearthed from a frozen ditch on February 9, 2023 - and it belonged to Emily Porter, who had been dead for thirty-one years; how did one shoe end up there while her apartment door was locked from the inside? What connects a locked deadbolt, a shoe in a ditch, and a police report filed a year earlier that named the method, vehicle, and location type of a crime?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of discoveries from the roadside find to the decades-long investigation, including the photograph of Emily's locked apartment door and the trail that led from a refrigerator-preserved skin cell to closure, asking whether the missing piece that eluded Detective Arthur Lemke for his entire career was finally found.

Person: Emily Porter
Date of discovery: February 9, 2023
Admission date on bracelet: October 14, 1991
Age at death: 62
Investigator: Arthur Lemke

- A road-grader operator named William Collins found a blue canvas sneaker in a frozen ditch along Route Nine connector on February 9, 2023.
- The sneaker was size seven and had a hospital ID bracelet with an admission date of October 14, 1991, knotted through the left eyelet.
- Emily Porter was last seen leaving her apartment at approximately 7:15 p.m. on October 17, 1991; her body was found eleven days later in a culvert three miles east of Route Nine.
- Emily's apartment deadbolt was locked from the inside on October 21, 1991, with her only key still hanging on a hook inside the door photograph pinned in the case folder.
- Emily had worked as a licensed practical nurse at Harlan County General for twenty-two years and volunteered every Thursday at Grover's Mill food pantry for eleven years.

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Mud on the road, nearly clean shoe soles, and a gold locket with a ruined photo - the evidence screamed that someone moved her, not that she walked there. The unidentified woman found in a Vance County limestone ditch on September 11, 1983, carried a receipt, a partial thumbprint and a medallion; why did her shoes say she hadn’t walked to her own death, and who moved her body?

In this episode, we tell the case history from discovery through the decades-long investigation and the clues that lingered unreadable until technology changed. You’ll hear where the body was found, what remained on her, and the single word a detective left in the file that haunted the case - what did Thursday mean?

Person: Crystal Ann Tate
Date found: September 11, 1983
Location found: limestone drainage ditch on Caldwell Ridge
Case: Jane Doe Vance-83-09
Detective: George Phelps

- Body discovered by utility technician Lloyd Andrews on a gravel road after two days of rain, September 11, 1983.
- Victim wearing a pale yellow cotton blouse, dark slacks, low-heeled shoes with nearly clean soles.
- Personal items missing: no purse, no keys, no wallet; gold medallion on a chain remained around her neck.
- Partial right-hand thumbprint lifted from her blouse near the collar returned no match in 1983 databases.
- Folded yellow carbon receipt dated August 29, 1983 for a plumbing supply distributor found in her nightstand with customer name torn away.

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Mud on the road, nearly clean shoe soles, and a gold locket with a ruined photo - the evidence screamed that someone moved her, not that she walked there. The unidentified woman found in a Vance County limestone ditch on September 11, 1983, carried a receipt, a partial thumbprint and a medallion; why did her shoes say she hadn’t walked to her own death, and who moved her body?

In this episode, we tell the case history from discovery through the decades-long investigation and the clues that lingered unreadable until technology changed. You’ll hear where the body was found, what remained on her, and the single word a detective left in the file that haunted the case - what did Thursday mean?

Person: Crystal Ann Tate
Date found: September 11, 1983
Location found: limestone drainage ditch on Caldwell Ridge
Case: Jane Doe Vance-83-09
Detective: George Phelps

- Body discovered by utility technician Lloyd Andrews on a gravel road after two days of rain, September 11, 1983.
- Victim wearing a pale yellow cotton blouse, dark slacks, low-heeled shoes with nearly clean soles.
- Personal items missing: no purse, no keys, no wallet; gold medallion on a chain remained around her neck.
- Partial right-hand thumbprint lifted from her blouse near the collar returned no match in 1983 databases.
- Folded yellow carbon receipt dated August 29, 1983 for a plumbing supply distributor found in her nightstand with customer name torn away.

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A thrown-away coffee cup with a receipt timestamped 7:43 AM on August 9th sat in cold river water and, five days later, led to the end of a 29-year-old murder case. A dried bloodstain from August 1993 preserved in evidence, a levee camera recording a figure at 11:18 PM on August 13, 2022, and a local runner who knew every rock on the trail all converged-who placed that cup and why?

In this episode, we follow the chain of small, concrete details that reactivated a cold file and changed what investigators thought they knew. You’ll hear how a routine morning disappearance, sealed evidence, and a late-night figure on camera reopened questions about John Ford’s death.

Person: John Ford
Date: August 19-20, 1993 (time of death); receipt timestamp August 9, 2022 at 7:43 AM; cup found August 14, 2022 at 6:15 AM
Location: Grider Creek Road; drainage culvert and Carrow River levee trail near Hardale
Status: Case cold for 29 years until 2022 review

- John Ford left home at 6:50 AM on August 19, 1993 and did not arrive at work.
- Ford’s dark green Chevy half-ton was found unlocked on a gravel pull-off twelve miles east of Hardale the next morning.
- A body was recovered from a drainage culvert on August 27, 1993 with time of death placed between August 19 and 20 from blunt-force trauma to the head.
- A dried bloodstain on a flat rock near the culvert was collected in 1993, sealed, and stored without being analyzed for nearly 29 years.
- A levee trail camera recorded a figure in dark clothing at 11:18 PM on August 13, 2022, and a coffee cup with a receipt was found in the shallows on August 14, 2022 at 6:15 AM.

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A thrown-away coffee cup with a receipt timestamped 7:43 AM on August 9th sat in cold river water and, five days later, led to the end of a 29-year-old murder case. A dried bloodstain from August 1993 preserved in evidence, a levee camera recording a figure at 11:18 PM on August 13, 2022, and a local runner who knew every rock on the trail all converged-who placed that cup and why?

In this episode, we follow the chain of small, concrete details that reactivated a cold file and changed what investigators thought they knew. You’ll hear how a routine morning disappearance, sealed evidence, and a late-night figure on camera reopened questions about John Ford’s death.

Person: John Ford
Date: August 19-20, 1993 (time of death); receipt timestamp August 9, 2022 at 7:43 AM; cup found August 14, 2022 at 6:15 AM
Location: Grider Creek Road; drainage culvert and Carrow River levee trail near Hardale
Status: Case cold for 29 years until 2022 review

- John Ford left home at 6:50 AM on August 19, 1993 and did not arrive at work.
- Ford’s dark green Chevy half-ton was found unlocked on a gravel pull-off twelve miles east of Hardale the next morning.
- A body was recovered from a drainage culvert on August 27, 1993 with time of death placed between August 19 and 20 from blunt-force trauma to the head.
- A dried bloodstain on a flat rock near the culvert was collected in 1993, sealed, and stored without being analyzed for nearly 29 years.
- A levee trail camera recorded a figure in dark clothing at 11:18 PM on August 13, 2022, and a coffee cup with a receipt was found in the shallows on August 14, 2022 at 6:15 AM.

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A single child's right-foot soccer cleat - size four, almost new - sat on the welcome mat of 4 Granger Mill Road the morning Clifford Perry made his July 14, 1993 rounds, with one fresh blade of cut grass stuck to its sole; how did that impossible shoe arrive at a house with no children and a porch lawn unmown for weeks? What did that lone blade of grass, preserved for nearly three decades, finally reveal about Pamela Becker's death?

In this episode, we follow the facts as recorded by investigators, neighbors, and a retired detective who kept anomalies close for years; we cover the timeline of Pamela Becker's last entries, the scene at her home, and the three unexplained pieces of evidence that haunted the case - and ask how a small, ordinary object became the clearest signature left by a killer.

Person: Pamela Becker
Date: July 13-14, 1993
Location: 4 Granger Mill Road, Harlow Township
Cause of death: Strangulation
Investigator: Detective Leon Marsh, Denton County Sheriff's Office

- A neighbor, Clifford Perry, discovered the open door and the single right-foot soccer cleat on the welcome mat on the morning of July 14, 1993.
- The cleat was size four, white, almost new, and had one blade of freshly cut grass stuck to its sole.
- Pamela Becker's last notebook entry for her cat's insulin reads 7:04 a.m., July 13, 1993; entries stop after that line.
- A neighbor, Edith Crane, drove past the house around 8:30 p.m. on July 13 and saw the front door closed and the welcome mat empty.
- The medical examiner determined death occurred 14 to 20 hours before the cleat was found, placing time of death in the late evening or early night of July 13, 1993.

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A single child's right-foot soccer cleat - size four, almost new - sat on the welcome mat of 4 Granger Mill Road the morning Clifford Perry made his July 14, 1993 rounds, with one fresh blade of cut grass stuck to its sole; how did that impossible shoe arrive at a house with no children and a porch lawn unmown for weeks? What did that lone blade of grass, preserved for nearly three decades, finally reveal about Pamela Becker's death?

In this episode, we follow the facts as recorded by investigators, neighbors, and a retired detective who kept anomalies close for years; we cover the timeline of Pamela Becker's last entries, the scene at her home, and the three unexplained pieces of evidence that haunted the case - and ask how a small, ordinary object became the clearest signature left by a killer.

Person: Pamela Becker
Date: July 13-14, 1993
Location: 4 Granger Mill Road, Harlow Township
Cause of death: Strangulation
Investigator: Detective Leon Marsh, Denton County Sheriff's Office

- A neighbor, Clifford Perry, discovered the open door and the single right-foot soccer cleat on the welcome mat on the morning of July 14, 1993.
- The cleat was size four, white, almost new, and had one blade of freshly cut grass stuck to its sole.
- Pamela Becker's last notebook entry for her cat's insulin reads 7:04 a.m., July 13, 1993; entries stop after that line.
- A neighbor, Edith Crane, drove past the house around 8:30 p.m. on July 13 and saw the front door closed and the welcome mat empty.
- The medical examiner determined death occurred 14 to 20 hours before the cleat was found, placing time of death in the late evening or early night of July 13, 1993.

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The carport door was open six inches and a single dark‑green wool driving glove lay dry on a bookshelf while June rain had soaked everything outside - and Frances Owens was on the living room floor, dead from manual strangulation. Who left that glove inside a locked, undisturbed house, and why did a faint fiber on her neck go unnoticed for nearly two decades?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the missed Wednesday phone call to the discovery of Frances Owens on Calhoun Spur Road, the initial evidence collected at the scene, and the early focus on the nearest neighbor - and we follow the detail that finally altered the case: the dry glove and a work order receipt that remained unconnected until much later. What changed when those two items were linked?

Person: Frances Owens
Location: Calhoun Spur Road, Harlan County, Kentucky
Date: between evening of June 7 and early morning of June 8
Cause: manual strangulation
Evidence: dark‑green wool driving glove (size large) found dry on second bookshelf shelf

- The side carport door was open exactly six inches, held by a push‑button latch.
- Frances Owens was fifty‑two years old and had lived on Calhoun Spur Road for nineteen years.
- Seven days passed before Frances was found; her weekly Wednesday 11 p.m. call to her sister did not occur.
- A dark‑green wool driving glove, size large, was found dry on the second shelf of the built‑in bookcase directly across from where Frances lay.
- A work order receipt dated eight months before the death listed technician as "C. Harris" and was collected in the evidence box.

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The carport door was open six inches and a single dark‑green wool driving glove lay dry on a bookshelf while June rain had soaked everything outside - and Frances Owens was on the living room floor, dead from manual strangulation. Who left that glove inside a locked, undisturbed house, and why did a faint fiber on her neck go unnoticed for nearly two decades?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the missed Wednesday phone call to the discovery of Frances Owens on Calhoun Spur Road, the initial evidence collected at the scene, and the early focus on the nearest neighbor - and we follow the detail that finally altered the case: the dry glove and a work order receipt that remained unconnected until much later. What changed when those two items were linked?

Person: Frances Owens
Location: Calhoun Spur Road, Harlan County, Kentucky
Date: between evening of June 7 and early morning of June 8
Cause: manual strangulation
Evidence: dark‑green wool driving glove (size large) found dry on second bookshelf shelf

- The side carport door was open exactly six inches, held by a push‑button latch.
- Frances Owens was fifty‑two years old and had lived on Calhoun Spur Road for nineteen years.
- Seven days passed before Frances was found; her weekly Wednesday 11 p.m. call to her sister did not occur.
- A dark‑green wool driving glove, size large, was found dry on the second shelf of the built‑in bookcase directly across from where Frances lay.
- A work order receipt dated eight months before the death listed technician as "C. Harris" and was collected in the evidence box.

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The snow globe in Crystal Casey’s open palm read “Benton Falls, WI / Terrace Road Gift & Sundry,” a place she had no connection to, and that mystery went unsolved for eighteen years. How did a Wisconsin souvenir lead investigators from a trail in Ohio to a family tree, a discarded coffee cup, and the man who left it?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from Crystal’s disappearance on May 7, 2002 through the discovery of the snow globe and the preservation of touch-DNA, to the breakthrough using consumer genealogy and a discarded coffee cup that confirmed a suspect. What did the snow globe really point to, and who did the DNA eventually identify?

Person: Crystal Casey
Date: May 9, 2002 (body found)
Location: Millhaven loop trail, Millhaven, Ohio
Age: 44
Investigator: Detective Phil Arnett

- Crystal Casey was found at 9:06 a.m. on May 9, 2002, twelve feet off the eastern edge of the Millhaven loop trail.
- The snow globe’s base was inscribed “Benton Falls, WI / Terrace Road Gift & Sundry.”
- Autopsy concluded manual strangulation with no sexual assault and nothing stolen.
- Touch-DNA from Crystal’s jacket produced a partial male profile that was preserved in a sealed envelope for eighteen years.
- A third cousin once removed match on GEDmatch (Beverly Norris of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) led genealogist Paul Mills to the family line after four months of handwritten trees and a confirmed match using a discarded coffee cup.

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The snow globe in Crystal Casey’s open palm read “Benton Falls, WI / Terrace Road Gift & Sundry,” a place she had no connection to, and that mystery went unsolved for eighteen years. How did a Wisconsin souvenir lead investigators from a trail in Ohio to a family tree, a discarded coffee cup, and the man who left it?

In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from Crystal’s disappearance on May 7, 2002 through the discovery of the snow globe and the preservation of touch-DNA, to the breakthrough using consumer genealogy and a discarded coffee cup that confirmed a suspect. What did the snow globe really point to, and who did the DNA eventually identify?

Person: Crystal Casey
Date: May 9, 2002 (body found)
Location: Millhaven loop trail, Millhaven, Ohio
Age: 44
Investigator: Detective Phil Arnett

- Crystal Casey was found at 9:06 a.m. on May 9, 2002, twelve feet off the eastern edge of the Millhaven loop trail.
- The snow globe’s base was inscribed “Benton Falls, WI / Terrace Road Gift & Sundry.”
- Autopsy concluded manual strangulation with no sexual assault and nothing stolen.
- Touch-DNA from Crystal’s jacket produced a partial male profile that was preserved in a sealed envelope for eighteen years.
- A third cousin once removed match on GEDmatch (Beverly Norris of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin) led genealogist Paul Mills to the family line after four months of handwritten trees and a confirmed match using a discarded coffee cup.

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The discovery of a plastic evidence bag sealed with red tape and a single white athletic sock pulled from the Sauder River reopened a 31-year mystery: the sock’s tag read "92-0417-C / Osborne" and had been missing for twelve years. How did a piece of evidence linked to Julie Osborne’s 1992 murder disappear from the evidence room, only to return decades later and point to a man who never left town?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from April 1992 through the forensic genealogy result in summer 2023, following the evidence, Detective Roy Tabb’s decades-long search, and the quiet life of the only suspect. What allowed a suspect to remain present and unseen for thirty-one years?

Case: Julie Osborne
Date: April 13-19, 1992
Person: Detective Roy Tabb
Location: Sauder River / Millvale Cut / Teller's Crossing, Indiana
Event: Forensic genealogy match in summer 2023

- Item 92-0417-C was a white athletic sock collected from the Sauder River in April 1992.
- The sock’s evidence tag was signed in Roy Tabb’s handwriting and labeled "Osborne."
- Julie Osborne’s car was found April 14, 1992, with keys in the ignition and no signs of struggle.
- Julie’s body was recovered April 19, 1992, after being in the water for six days; cause of death was manual strangulation.
- The sock evidence was missing from the evidence room for twelve years before being found in a plastic bag on April 9, 2023.

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The discovery of a plastic evidence bag sealed with red tape and a single white athletic sock pulled from the Sauder River reopened a 31-year mystery: the sock’s tag read "92-0417-C / Osborne" and had been missing for twelve years. How did a piece of evidence linked to Julie Osborne’s 1992 murder disappear from the evidence room, only to return decades later and point to a man who never left town?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from April 1992 through the forensic genealogy result in summer 2023, following the evidence, Detective Roy Tabb’s decades-long search, and the quiet life of the only suspect. What allowed a suspect to remain present and unseen for thirty-one years?

Case: Julie Osborne
Date: April 13-19, 1992
Person: Detective Roy Tabb
Location: Sauder River / Millvale Cut / Teller's Crossing, Indiana
Event: Forensic genealogy match in summer 2023

- Item 92-0417-C was a white athletic sock collected from the Sauder River in April 1992.
- The sock’s evidence tag was signed in Roy Tabb’s handwriting and labeled "Osborne."
- Julie Osborne’s car was found April 14, 1992, with keys in the ignition and no signs of struggle.
- Julie’s body was recovered April 19, 1992, after being in the water for six days; cause of death was manual strangulation.
- The sock evidence was missing from the evidence room for twelve years before being found in a plastic bag on April 9, 2023.

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A single coral pink sneaker, the wrong color for something that had spent a winter outdoors, sat half-buried in a drainage embankment and led to the end of a thirty-one year silence. How did a shoe found by a land surveyor in March 2022 unearth a missing nurse last seen on March 4, 1991 - and what kept witnesses from speaking for decades?

In this episode, we follow the discovery, the immediate search of forty acres across eleven days, and the forensic genealogy that finally produced a lead. How did a distant DNA match and one coworker’s memory change everything for a small Ohio town?

Person: Debra Boyd
Date: March 4, 1991
Location: Fenwick Falls, Tillman County, Ohio
Event: Coral pink sneaker discovery on eastern edge of Tillman County
Investigator: April Riley

- The shoe was spotted fifteen feet away by land surveyor Grant Donnelly in the second week of March 2022.
- Inside the coral pink shoe was a sock and the distal third of a human foot fused to bone.
- Investigators conducted eleven days of grid searching across forty acres of frozen farmland after the discovery.
- Debra Boyd was fifty-six years old, a licensed practical nurse with fourteen years on the evening shift at Brecken Memorial Hospital.
- Forensic genealogist April Riley traced a DNA profile using a third-cousin-level match after four months of building family trees from hundreds of names.

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A single coral pink sneaker, the wrong color for something that had spent a winter outdoors, sat half-buried in a drainage embankment and led to the end of a thirty-one year silence. How did a shoe found by a land surveyor in March 2022 unearth a missing nurse last seen on March 4, 1991 - and what kept witnesses from speaking for decades?

In this episode, we follow the discovery, the immediate search of forty acres across eleven days, and the forensic genealogy that finally produced a lead. How did a distant DNA match and one coworker’s memory change everything for a small Ohio town?

Person: Debra Boyd
Date: March 4, 1991
Location: Fenwick Falls, Tillman County, Ohio
Event: Coral pink sneaker discovery on eastern edge of Tillman County
Investigator: April Riley

- The shoe was spotted fifteen feet away by land surveyor Grant Donnelly in the second week of March 2022.
- Inside the coral pink shoe was a sock and the distal third of a human foot fused to bone.
- Investigators conducted eleven days of grid searching across forty acres of frozen farmland after the discovery.
- Debra Boyd was fifty-six years old, a licensed practical nurse with fourteen years on the evening shift at Brecken Memorial Hospital.
- Forensic genealogist April Riley traced a DNA profile using a third-cousin-level match after four months of building family trees from hundreds of names.

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A single perfectly white cotton swab, labeled 1993 and found in a sewer riser in February 2023, erased three decades of concealment and exposed a man who had killed a twenty-two-year-old. Why did a seventy-one-year-old handyman break into a basement with a crowbar after reading something in a magazine the previous fall, and how did one swapped swab finally end this?

In this episode, we follow the factual timeline from Curtis Hicks’s disappearance on February 9, 1993, through the evidence mishandling and storage moves that hid the case for thirty years, to the moment the sealed bag surfaced in 2023 - and ask how that lost swab changed everything.

Person: Curtis Hicks
Date: February 9, 1993
Location: Dunnfield County
Event: Body found in drainage culvert on February 15, 1993
Item: Evidence bag barcode read 1993

- Curtis Hicks was 22 years old when he disappeared on February 9, 1993.
- His tan Chevrolet Cavalier was found on the shoulder of Township Road 18 roughly two miles from his apartment.
- Curtis was found dead on February 15, 1993 from a single blunt force blow to the back of his skull.
- A blood smear on the Cavalier door handle was collected by criminalist Sherry Odom and logged into the county evidence system.
- The evidence bag sat in a county freezer for six years, then was misplaced in a basement after a 1999 transfer and 2004 decommissioning before being rediscovered in 2023.

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A single perfectly white cotton swab, labeled 1993 and found in a sewer riser in February 2023, erased three decades of concealment and exposed a man who had killed a twenty-two-year-old. Why did a seventy-one-year-old handyman break into a basement with a crowbar after reading something in a magazine the previous fall, and how did one swapped swab finally end this?

In this episode, we follow the factual timeline from Curtis Hicks’s disappearance on February 9, 1993, through the evidence mishandling and storage moves that hid the case for thirty years, to the moment the sealed bag surfaced in 2023 - and ask how that lost swab changed everything.

Person: Curtis Hicks
Date: February 9, 1993
Location: Dunnfield County
Event: Body found in drainage culvert on February 15, 1993
Item: Evidence bag barcode read 1993

- Curtis Hicks was 22 years old when he disappeared on February 9, 1993.
- His tan Chevrolet Cavalier was found on the shoulder of Township Road 18 roughly two miles from his apartment.
- Curtis was found dead on February 15, 1993 from a single blunt force blow to the back of his skull.
- A blood smear on the Cavalier door handle was collected by criminalist Sherry Odom and logged into the county evidence system.
- The evidence bag sat in a county freezer for six years, then was misplaced in a basement after a 1999 transfer and 2004 decommissioning before being rediscovered in 2023.

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Fear of the unknown tightens when a small, ordinary object points straight at a killer: a gold-toned Seiko found face-up in leaf litter, running and stopped only by time reading 7:14 beside Beverly Marshall’s body. Who would carry a dead woman’s watch to a creek bed, set it down thirty feet from her, then drive home and plan the next day’s deliveries-what secret was the watch keeping?

In this episode, we tell the story of Beverly Marshall’s life, disappearance on January 8, 1987, and the decades-long search that turned a discarded wristwatch and a sealed biological sample into the key question: how did a technology not yet invented unlock what eyewitnesses and early investigators could not?

Person: Beverly Marshall
Date: January 8-9, 1987
Location: Tilton Creek, near Fenwick, Ohio
Status: Murder solved decades later using newer technology
Case: Unsolved at time of initial investigation; suspect Terry Bosch investigated but not charged

- The watch was a gold-toned Seiko found face-up in frozen leaf litter reading 7:14.
- The morning temperature when the watch was found was eleven degrees.
- The watch lay roughly thirty feet from Beverly’s body and about forty yards from the waterline.
- Beverly was thirty-nine years old, lived on Birch Terrace, and worked as a medical transcriptionist.
- Beverly’s Honda Civic was found January 9, 1987, locked in the Fenwick Food Mart parking lot six blocks from her apartment.

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Fear of the unknown tightens when a small, ordinary object points straight at a killer: a gold-toned Seiko found face-up in leaf litter, running and stopped only by time reading 7:14 beside Beverly Marshall’s body. Who would carry a dead woman’s watch to a creek bed, set it down thirty feet from her, then drive home and plan the next day’s deliveries-what secret was the watch keeping?

In this episode, we tell the story of Beverly Marshall’s life, disappearance on January 8, 1987, and the decades-long search that turned a discarded wristwatch and a sealed biological sample into the key question: how did a technology not yet invented unlock what eyewitnesses and early investigators could not?

Person: Beverly Marshall
Date: January 8-9, 1987
Location: Tilton Creek, near Fenwick, Ohio
Status: Murder solved decades later using newer technology
Case: Unsolved at time of initial investigation; suspect Terry Bosch investigated but not charged

- The watch was a gold-toned Seiko found face-up in frozen leaf litter reading 7:14.
- The morning temperature when the watch was found was eleven degrees.
- The watch lay roughly thirty feet from Beverly’s body and about forty yards from the waterline.
- Beverly was thirty-nine years old, lived on Birch Terrace, and worked as a medical transcriptionist.
- Beverly’s Honda Civic was found January 9, 1987, locked in the Fenwick Food Mart parking lot six blocks from her apartment.

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Coldness filled a house from the inside out the morning a teen found a 62-year-old widow dead on her foyer floor, and a sealed pint of Dellmoor Dairy chocolate milk-made obsolete six years earlier-sat beside her hand. Why would someone bring a vintage, full, factory-sealed bottle to a scene with no forced entry, and what did the man arrested in 2023 whisper that stopped officers cold?

In this episode, we walk through the facts recorded at the scene, the long unsolved investigation, and the odd, persistent details that kept the case open for thirty years-then finally produced a confession that hinged on that single bottle. How did a milk bottle from a dairy that stopped deliveries in 1981 become the clue that lasted decades?

Person: Teresa Fisher
Date: December 9, 1993
Location: Sycamore Terrace, Dellmoor, Ohio
Cause of death: Manual strangulation
Status: Unsolved for thirty years until an arrest in winter 2023

- Time of death estimated between 9:00 and 11:00 PM on December 8, 1993.
- Victim’s age: 62 years; lived on Sycamore Terrace for 19 years and worked at Dellmoor Public Library.
- Bottle: glass pint of chocolate milk, Dellmoor Dairy, full and factory-sealed with paper-foil cap.
- Dellmoor Dairy stopped residential deliveries to Sycamore Terrace in October 1981 and closed permanently in 1987.
- Discoverer: Howard Brooks, age 14, found the door ajar at 6:17 AM on December 9, 1993.

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Coldness filled a house from the inside out the morning a teen found a 62-year-old widow dead on her foyer floor, and a sealed pint of Dellmoor Dairy chocolate milk-made obsolete six years earlier-sat beside her hand. Why would someone bring a vintage, full, factory-sealed bottle to a scene with no forced entry, and what did the man arrested in 2023 whisper that stopped officers cold?

In this episode, we walk through the facts recorded at the scene, the long unsolved investigation, and the odd, persistent details that kept the case open for thirty years-then finally produced a confession that hinged on that single bottle. How did a milk bottle from a dairy that stopped deliveries in 1981 become the clue that lasted decades?

Person: Teresa Fisher
Date: December 9, 1993
Location: Sycamore Terrace, Dellmoor, Ohio
Cause of death: Manual strangulation
Status: Unsolved for thirty years until an arrest in winter 2023

- Time of death estimated between 9:00 and 11:00 PM on December 8, 1993.
- Victim’s age: 62 years; lived on Sycamore Terrace for 19 years and worked at Dellmoor Public Library.
- Bottle: glass pint of chocolate milk, Dellmoor Dairy, full and factory-sealed with paper-foil cap.
- Dellmoor Dairy stopped residential deliveries to Sycamore Terrace in October 1981 and closed permanently in 1987.
- Discoverer: Howard Brooks, age 14, found the door ajar at 6:17 AM on December 9, 1993.

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Cold and stiff at eleven degrees below, a road-grader blade dragged a blue $22 plastic cooler six feet across the frozen shoulder of Route 9 - and a mummified hand with a small sterling ring stamped with an anchor poked from the gap. That ring had been described by a mother who reported her son missing thirty-one years earlier; how did a cooler sit undisturbed at mile marker seven for decades and who unlocked it when the lid turned freely?

In this episode, we tell what was inside that cooler, how a single strand of DNA preserved in a state crime lab freezer decades later changed everything, and why investigators were stopped more by the patience of whoever returned to the cooler than by violence itself. What connects a retired truck driver to a murder left cold for thirty-one years?

Person: Ryan Long
Date: November 9, 1988
Location: Mile Marker 7, Route 9
Age: 24
Caller: Dorothy Long

- Cooler model: blue plastic chest cooler, retail value about $22
- Weather at discovery: eleven degrees below zero under a gray November sky
- Time between disappearance and discovery call: 31 years (1988 to November 16, 2019)
- Evidence preserved: semen stain on the collar of Ryan’s canvas jacket stored in state crime lab freezer
- Investigative lead in 1988: suspect Brett Solis interviewed four times over three years

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Cold and stiff at eleven degrees below, a road-grader blade dragged a blue $22 plastic cooler six feet across the frozen shoulder of Route 9 - and a mummified hand with a small sterling ring stamped with an anchor poked from the gap. That ring had been described by a mother who reported her son missing thirty-one years earlier; how did a cooler sit undisturbed at mile marker seven for decades and who unlocked it when the lid turned freely?

In this episode, we tell what was inside that cooler, how a single strand of DNA preserved in a state crime lab freezer decades later changed everything, and why investigators were stopped more by the patience of whoever returned to the cooler than by violence itself. What connects a retired truck driver to a murder left cold for thirty-one years?

Person: Ryan Long
Date: November 9, 1988
Location: Mile Marker 7, Route 9
Age: 24
Caller: Dorothy Long

- Cooler model: blue plastic chest cooler, retail value about $22
- Weather at discovery: eleven degrees below zero under a gray November sky
- Time between disappearance and discovery call: 31 years (1988 to November 16, 2019)
- Evidence preserved: semen stain on the collar of Ryan’s canvas jacket stored in state crime lab freezer
- Investigative lead in 1988: suspect Brett Solis interviewed four times over three years

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A single cigarette butt, logged and shelved in 2006, produced a complete DNA profile in 2023 and led investigators to distant cousins in a consumer genealogy database-how did that abandoned scrap eventually point to a man who vanished and another who confessed to murder? What hidden trail did a size four sneaker, a running wristwatch, and six months of genetic reconstruction reveal about two cold cases?

In this episode, we walk through the sequence of events from the discovery in a padlocked building to the 2023 breakthrough, describing the evidence, the gaps in the early investigation, and the genealogical work that tied two disappearances together. How did a cigarette butt, a coffee cup, and a genealogy database change a seventeen-year-old case?

Date: October 7, 2006
Person: Eric Henderson
Location: Anchor House diner parking lot; Pelham industrial corridor
Investigator: Gordon Burke
Forensic genealogist: Harriet Song

- Eric Henderson disappeared after being seen leaving the Anchor House diner between 10:00 and 10:15 PM on October 7, 2006.
- A cigarette butt collected from the diner parking lot in 2006 was stored in evidence and not submitted for DNA analysis until February 2023.
- The lab extracted a complete DNA profile from the cigarette butt in 2023 and found no match in CODIS.
- Consumer genealogy searches produced distant-cousin matches, and forensic genealogist Harriet Song spent six months building family trees from those partial matches.
- The man later identified through the investigation, Charles Adams, had been delivering parts in the industrial corridor since 2002 and confessed to another killing from November 2003 after his identification.

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A single cigarette butt, logged and shelved in 2006, produced a complete DNA profile in 2023 and led investigators to distant cousins in a consumer genealogy database-how did that abandoned scrap eventually point to a man who vanished and another who confessed to murder? What hidden trail did a size four sneaker, a running wristwatch, and six months of genetic reconstruction reveal about two cold cases?

In this episode, we walk through the sequence of events from the discovery in a padlocked building to the 2023 breakthrough, describing the evidence, the gaps in the early investigation, and the genealogical work that tied two disappearances together. How did a cigarette butt, a coffee cup, and a genealogy database change a seventeen-year-old case?

Date: October 7, 2006
Person: Eric Henderson
Location: Anchor House diner parking lot; Pelham industrial corridor
Investigator: Gordon Burke
Forensic genealogist: Harriet Song

- Eric Henderson disappeared after being seen leaving the Anchor House diner between 10:00 and 10:15 PM on October 7, 2006.
- A cigarette butt collected from the diner parking lot in 2006 was stored in evidence and not submitted for DNA analysis until February 2023.
- The lab extracted a complete DNA profile from the cigarette butt in 2023 and found no match in CODIS.
- Consumer genealogy searches produced distant-cousin matches, and forensic genealogist Harriet Song spent six months building family trees from those partial matches.
- The man later identified through the investigation, Charles Adams, had been delivering parts in the industrial corridor since 2002 and confessed to another killing from November 2003 after his identification.

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A refrigerated envelope held a wax cast of a bite mark for thirty-one years before it helped break a murder cold case - the cast showed a rotated upper arch, incisor overlap, and a missing or shortened lower left lateral incisor. How did a dental impression made on September 14, 1979, end up as the key to an answer no one knew to ask for decades?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the morning Marcia Wallace was found to the preservation of the bite cast and the original investigation’s dead ends, asking whether the single overlooked canvas note and that sealed dental cast were the threads that finally closed the case.

Person: Marcia Wallace
Date found: September 11, 1979
Occupation: Dental hygienist
Finder: Norman Patterson
Investigator who made cast: Beverly Lind

- Marcia Wallace was 32 years old when her body was found at Kellum Creek Park at 6:27 a.m.
- Diane Wallace reported Marcia missing on September 10, 1979, after Marcia missed a confirmed family dinner.
- Medical examiner Dr. Amos Schuler ruled cause of death as manual strangulation combined with sustained physical assault.
- Forensic odontologist Beverly Lind made a wax bite impression from a bite mark on Marcia's left shoulder on September 14, 1979, and wrote “Wallace, M. - Bite Imp. - 9/14/79 - Lind” on the envelope.
- Detective Frank Yee’s canvass included a four-line entry for “K. Mason” dated September 17, 1979, with no disposition and no dental impression request.

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A refrigerated envelope held a wax cast of a bite mark for thirty-one years before it helped break a murder cold case - the cast showed a rotated upper arch, incisor overlap, and a missing or shortened lower left lateral incisor. How did a dental impression made on September 14, 1979, end up as the key to an answer no one knew to ask for decades?

In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the morning Marcia Wallace was found to the preservation of the bite cast and the original investigation’s dead ends, asking whether the single overlooked canvas note and that sealed dental cast were the threads that finally closed the case.

Person: Marcia Wallace
Date found: September 11, 1979
Occupation: Dental hygienist
Finder: Norman Patterson
Investigator who made cast: Beverly Lind

- Marcia Wallace was 32 years old when her body was found at Kellum Creek Park at 6:27 a.m.
- Diane Wallace reported Marcia missing on September 10, 1979, after Marcia missed a confirmed family dinner.
- Medical examiner Dr. Amos Schuler ruled cause of death as manual strangulation combined with sustained physical assault.
- Forensic odontologist Beverly Lind made a wax bite impression from a bite mark on Marcia's left shoulder on September 14, 1979, and wrote “Wallace, M. - Bite Imp. - 9/14/79 - Lind” on the envelope.
- Detective Frank Yee’s canvass included a four-line entry for “K. Mason” dated September 17, 1979, with no disposition and no dental impression request.

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A postal carrier who delivered the same route five days a week watched a 52-year-old insurance adjuster walk to the market at night because her car’s air conditioning had failed - then she vanished the next day with the back door of her house latched from the inside. Biological evidence collected by Detective Frank Sobel in 1991 sat frozen for three decades until a consumer ancestry kit opened a new line of inquiry in 2022; who closed the impossible screen door and why?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Cheryl Sheridan’s routine life on Crestwood Drive and the August 14, 1991 meter reader discovery to the decades-long evidence file at the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office and the breakthrough that began with a birthday gift in Bend, Oregon. How did a route sheet and preserved biology finally connect a neighborhood face to a cold case?

Person: Cheryl Sheridan
Date: August 14, 1991
Location: 4 Crestwood Drive, Harwick, New York
Investigator: Detective Frank Sobel
Breakthrough: October 2022 (Ancestry kit discovery in Bend, Oregon)

- Cheryl Sheridan was 52 years old and worked as an insurance adjuster out of Elmira with a forty-minute commute each way.
- Paula Kowalski arrived at 4 Crestwood Drive at 7:52 AM on August 14, 1991 to read a meter and found the back door locked from the inside.
- Leon Anderson had been delivering mail on the Crestwood route since April 1991, approximately four months before Cheryl’s disappearance.
- Detective Frank Sobel collected biological evidence in 1991 and the material remained in a freezer through department reorganizations until at least 2017.
- In October 2022, a woman in Bend, Oregon opened a birthday gift (an ancestry kit) that revealed unexpected information tied to the case.

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A postal carrier who delivered the same route five days a week watched a 52-year-old insurance adjuster walk to the market at night because her car’s air conditioning had failed - then she vanished the next day with the back door of her house latched from the inside. Biological evidence collected by Detective Frank Sobel in 1991 sat frozen for three decades until a consumer ancestry kit opened a new line of inquiry in 2022; who closed the impossible screen door and why?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Cheryl Sheridan’s routine life on Crestwood Drive and the August 14, 1991 meter reader discovery to the decades-long evidence file at the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office and the breakthrough that began with a birthday gift in Bend, Oregon. How did a route sheet and preserved biology finally connect a neighborhood face to a cold case?

Person: Cheryl Sheridan
Date: August 14, 1991
Location: 4 Crestwood Drive, Harwick, New York
Investigator: Detective Frank Sobel
Breakthrough: October 2022 (Ancestry kit discovery in Bend, Oregon)

- Cheryl Sheridan was 52 years old and worked as an insurance adjuster out of Elmira with a forty-minute commute each way.
- Paula Kowalski arrived at 4 Crestwood Drive at 7:52 AM on August 14, 1991 to read a meter and found the back door locked from the inside.
- Leon Anderson had been delivering mail on the Crestwood route since April 1991, approximately four months before Cheryl’s disappearance.
- Detective Frank Sobel collected biological evidence in 1991 and the material remained in a freezer through department reorganizations until at least 2017.
- In October 2022, a woman in Bend, Oregon opened a birthday gift (an ancestry kit) that revealed unexpected information tied to the case.

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The first fact that arrests you: a volunteer opened a donated chest freezer and found Debra Mitchell folded inside at 14 degrees below zero, one brown leather sandal on her right foot and the left sandal nowhere to be found. Thirty-one years later, a retired machinist throwing away a coffee cup reopened questions no one solved-who had access to that hidden freezer, and where is the missing sandal?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Debra’s last confirmed sighting to the discovery in the church freezer and the decades-long cold trail that followed, including the forgotten beige sedan and a faint chemical odor logged by a forensic technician-what connects the missing left sandal and the coffee cup discarded in 2022?

Person: Debra Mitchell
Date: July 14, 1991 (discovery); July 1, 1991 (last confirmed sighting)
Location: Calvary Ridge Church freezer; Orchard Grade Road duplex
Status: Case cold for thirty-one years until a new lead in 2022
Occupation: Licensed practical nurse at Harwick Regional Hospital

- Debra Mitchell was found inside a donated chest freezer at 9:47 AM on July 14, 1991, at 14°F below zero.
- She had been missing for thirteen days after last being seen waving in her front yard around 7:30 PM on July 1, 1991.
- One brown leather buckle-strap sandal remained on her right foot; the left sandal was not found at the church, her duplex, the parking lot, or the roadside.
- Forensic technician Vera Szabo recorded a faint chemical odor inside the freezer, described like motor oil or parts-cleaning solvent, in field notes but not the final report.
- Detective Sergeant Frank Arber documented sixty-one interviews by August 1991 on handwritten index cards and kept three unresolved cards (including the beige sedan) for thirty-one years.

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The first fact that arrests you: a volunteer opened a donated chest freezer and found Debra Mitchell folded inside at 14 degrees below zero, one brown leather sandal on her right foot and the left sandal nowhere to be found. Thirty-one years later, a retired machinist throwing away a coffee cup reopened questions no one solved-who had access to that hidden freezer, and where is the missing sandal?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Debra’s last confirmed sighting to the discovery in the church freezer and the decades-long cold trail that followed, including the forgotten beige sedan and a faint chemical odor logged by a forensic technician-what connects the missing left sandal and the coffee cup discarded in 2022?

Person: Debra Mitchell
Date: July 14, 1991 (discovery); July 1, 1991 (last confirmed sighting)
Location: Calvary Ridge Church freezer; Orchard Grade Road duplex
Status: Case cold for thirty-one years until a new lead in 2022
Occupation: Licensed practical nurse at Harwick Regional Hospital

- Debra Mitchell was found inside a donated chest freezer at 9:47 AM on July 14, 1991, at 14°F below zero.
- She had been missing for thirteen days after last being seen waving in her front yard around 7:30 PM on July 1, 1991.
- One brown leather buckle-strap sandal remained on her right foot; the left sandal was not found at the church, her duplex, the parking lot, or the roadside.
- Forensic technician Vera Szabo recorded a faint chemical odor inside the freezer, described like motor oil or parts-cleaning solvent, in field notes but not the final report.
- Detective Sergeant Frank Arber documented sixty-one interviews by August 1991 on handwritten index cards and kept three unresolved cards (including the beige sedan) for thirty-one years.

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A laminated trail map for Hatcher's Bluff was found folded into thirds under the right hand of Bruce Stewart - a map that would not be publicly printed until October 1994, four months after Bruce died on June 11, 1994. Why was a not-yet-published trail guide deliberately folded and placed with a man who lay in the sumac for hours after being struck twice at the base of the skull?

In this episode, we walk through the sequence of events from the morning Bruce was found through the decades the case sat cold, following the overlooked physical detail that changed everything: the precise three-panel fold of the map and who handled the case when it reopened. What does that folded map tell us about where Bruce actually was and who had access to a map that shouldn’t have existed yet?

Person: Bruce Stewart
Date: June 11, 1994
Location: Hatcher's Bluff, Ridgeback Loop, creek trail area
Status: Case closed in eight months; file later transferred to cold case storage
Person: Marie Slater

- Bruce Stewart was 28 years old at the time of his death.
- His red pickup truck was parked at the Hatcher's Bluff trailhead on the morning he was found.
- Bruce had been struck twice at the base of the skull with a blunt object; the weapon was never recovered.
- The laminated Hatcher's Bluff trail map found under his hand was folded into three equal panels and would not be publicly printed until October 1994.
- Melissa Wright pulled the Stewart file from cold case storage in spring 2014 after transferring to the cold case unit.

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A laminated trail map for Hatcher's Bluff was found folded into thirds under the right hand of Bruce Stewart - a map that would not be publicly printed until October 1994, four months after Bruce died on June 11, 1994. Why was a not-yet-published trail guide deliberately folded and placed with a man who lay in the sumac for hours after being struck twice at the base of the skull?

In this episode, we walk through the sequence of events from the morning Bruce was found through the decades the case sat cold, following the overlooked physical detail that changed everything: the precise three-panel fold of the map and who handled the case when it reopened. What does that folded map tell us about where Bruce actually was and who had access to a map that shouldn’t have existed yet?

Person: Bruce Stewart
Date: June 11, 1994
Location: Hatcher's Bluff, Ridgeback Loop, creek trail area
Status: Case closed in eight months; file later transferred to cold case storage
Person: Marie Slater

- Bruce Stewart was 28 years old at the time of his death.
- His red pickup truck was parked at the Hatcher's Bluff trailhead on the morning he was found.
- Bruce had been struck twice at the base of the skull with a blunt object; the weapon was never recovered.
- The laminated Hatcher's Bluff trail map found under his hand was folded into three equal panels and would not be publicly printed until October 1994.
- Melissa Wright pulled the Stewart file from cold case storage in spring 2014 after transferring to the cold case unit.

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A waterlogged low-heeled shoe pulled from a reservoir in May contained a readable hospital sticker: Duncan, G., Briar Falls General, 05/09 - and that single detail would unlock a four-decade mystery. How did a hospital tag and a hair root sealed in a county freezer finally point to the truth about a woman who vanished after leaving the ER in 1984?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning a fisherman found the shoe to the decades-long investigation that preserved evidence in a freezer and mislaid suspicion on the wrong man; what finally connected the hospital tag and the hair to the location four miles from the water?

Person: Gina Duncan
Date: May 9, 1984
Location: Briar Falls General Hospital parking lot
Evidence: single hair root recovered from headrest, preserved in county lab freezer
Event: shoe recovered from Calloway Reservoir on May 14 (waterlogged, 40 years of silt)

- The shoe recovered was one brown low-heeled shoe, waterlogged and crusted with forty years of reservoir silt.
- The hospital sticker inside the shoe read: Duncan, G. - Briar Falls General - 05/09.
- Gina Duncan was fifty-two years old in spring 1984 and had worked the front desk at Briar Falls General for nineteen years.
- Gina’s dark-green 1979 Buick Skylark was found five days after her disappearance with keys on the seat and an unlocked door.
- A single hair root from the headrest was collected in May 1984, sealed in a paper envelope, logged into the county lab, and stored in the freezer for thirty-six years.

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A waterlogged low-heeled shoe pulled from a reservoir in May contained a readable hospital sticker: Duncan, G., Briar Falls General, 05/09 - and that single detail would unlock a four-decade mystery. How did a hospital tag and a hair root sealed in a county freezer finally point to the truth about a woman who vanished after leaving the ER in 1984?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning a fisherman found the shoe to the decades-long investigation that preserved evidence in a freezer and mislaid suspicion on the wrong man; what finally connected the hospital tag and the hair to the location four miles from the water?

Person: Gina Duncan
Date: May 9, 1984
Location: Briar Falls General Hospital parking lot
Evidence: single hair root recovered from headrest, preserved in county lab freezer
Event: shoe recovered from Calloway Reservoir on May 14 (waterlogged, 40 years of silt)

- The shoe recovered was one brown low-heeled shoe, waterlogged and crusted with forty years of reservoir silt.
- The hospital sticker inside the shoe read: Duncan, G. - Briar Falls General - 05/09.
- Gina Duncan was fifty-two years old in spring 1984 and had worked the front desk at Briar Falls General for nineteen years.
- Gina’s dark-green 1979 Buick Skylark was found five days after her disappearance with keys on the seat and an unlocked door.
- A single hair root from the headrest was collected in May 1984, sealed in a paper envelope, logged into the county lab, and stored in the freezer for thirty-six years.

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A thirty-one-year-old missing-person case pivots on three strands of hair found in a fist and an envelope kept on a retired sergeant’s shelf for decades - one of those hairs yielded a full nuclear DNA profile after sitting in a garage for two years. Who paid attention to that envelope, and what did a genealogy match from Indiana reveal about the person connected to Gloria Chambers’ disappearance?

In this episode, we tell how a surveyor found skeletal remains in April 2021 and how a dead detective’s evidence envelope reopened a case that began on April 7, 1990. Follow the chain from the missing-person report to the discovery of hair in a fist, the transfer of that envelope after the sergeant’s death, and the genealogical lead that followed.

Person: Gloria Chambers
Date: April 7, 1990 (disappearance)
Location: Caldwell Township
Person: Sergeant Dennis Pruitt
Event: Remains discovered April 14, 2021

- Gloria Chambers was twenty-two years old when she disappeared after leaving Pat Winslow's on the evening of April 7, 1990.
- Sergeant Dennis Pruitt bagged three strands of hair found in Gloria’s right fist and labeled the envelope "Chambers / April ninety / Hair from fist - NOT HERS."
- Pruitt retired in 2004 and died in March 2019; his daughter Karen Vogel found the envelope in his garage eight months after his death.
- Two of the three hair strands had intact root tissue, allowing a full nuclear DNA profile to be generated in spring 2020.
- The first genealogy match was a woman in Indiana, Patricia Odell, sharing approximately 1,740 centimorgans with the unknown profile.

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A thirty-one-year-old missing-person case pivots on three strands of hair found in a fist and an envelope kept on a retired sergeant’s shelf for decades - one of those hairs yielded a full nuclear DNA profile after sitting in a garage for two years. Who paid attention to that envelope, and what did a genealogy match from Indiana reveal about the person connected to Gloria Chambers’ disappearance?

In this episode, we tell how a surveyor found skeletal remains in April 2021 and how a dead detective’s evidence envelope reopened a case that began on April 7, 1990. Follow the chain from the missing-person report to the discovery of hair in a fist, the transfer of that envelope after the sergeant’s death, and the genealogical lead that followed.

Person: Gloria Chambers
Date: April 7, 1990 (disappearance)
Location: Caldwell Township
Person: Sergeant Dennis Pruitt
Event: Remains discovered April 14, 2021

- Gloria Chambers was twenty-two years old when she disappeared after leaving Pat Winslow's on the evening of April 7, 1990.
- Sergeant Dennis Pruitt bagged three strands of hair found in Gloria’s right fist and labeled the envelope "Chambers / April ninety / Hair from fist - NOT HERS."
- Pruitt retired in 2004 and died in March 2019; his daughter Karen Vogel found the envelope in his garage eight months after his death.
- Two of the three hair strands had intact root tissue, allowing a full nuclear DNA profile to be generated in spring 2020.
- The first genealogy match was a woman in Indiana, Patricia Odell, sharing approximately 1,740 centimorgans with the unknown profile.

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Cold and precise: a dark green tote with a white heron sat on a cracked septic lid through twenty-nine winters, holding a library card, cash, credit cards and a day planner that belonged to a woman who vanished after feeding her horses. How did a strand of DNA on electrical tape and a college genealogy project point to someone the original probe never seriously considered?

In this episode, we take you through the discovery on Fieldstone Lane and the twists that followed, from the early interviews and a cadaver dog alert to a single overlooked work order that may rewrite the timeline. Who placed Monica Phillips’s tote on that concrete slab, and why did it sit in plain sight for nearly three decades?

Person: Monica Phillips
Date: March 12 (night of disappearance)
Location: Fieldstone Lane farmhouse
Status: Missing for twenty-nine years
Person: Thomas Larsen

- At 7:40 a.m. on March 4, septic service operator Thomas Larsen found a dark green canvas tote on a cracked concrete septic-tank lid.
- Inside the tote was a gallon zip-lock bag sealed with electrical tape containing a wallet, $22 cash, a Weston County library card in Monica Phillips’s name, and a spiral-bound day planner.
- Monica Phillips was 38 at the time she disappeared and had worked seven years as a dental hygienist at a two-chair practice on Vickers Street.
- Detective Phil Acosta interviewed 41 people in the first two weeks of the investigation and found no enemies, boyfriend, or estranged husband.
- A January work order showed plumber Kevin Vaughn made two visits to repair a cracked inlet baffle on the septic tank at a property on Fieldstone Lane.

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Cold and precise: a dark green tote with a white heron sat on a cracked septic lid through twenty-nine winters, holding a library card, cash, credit cards and a day planner that belonged to a woman who vanished after feeding her horses. How did a strand of DNA on electrical tape and a college genealogy project point to someone the original probe never seriously considered?

In this episode, we take you through the discovery on Fieldstone Lane and the twists that followed, from the early interviews and a cadaver dog alert to a single overlooked work order that may rewrite the timeline. Who placed Monica Phillips’s tote on that concrete slab, and why did it sit in plain sight for nearly three decades?

Person: Monica Phillips
Date: March 12 (night of disappearance)
Location: Fieldstone Lane farmhouse
Status: Missing for twenty-nine years
Person: Thomas Larsen

- At 7:40 a.m. on March 4, septic service operator Thomas Larsen found a dark green canvas tote on a cracked concrete septic-tank lid.
- Inside the tote was a gallon zip-lock bag sealed with electrical tape containing a wallet, $22 cash, a Weston County library card in Monica Phillips’s name, and a spiral-bound day planner.
- Monica Phillips was 38 at the time she disappeared and had worked seven years as a dental hygienist at a two-chair practice on Vickers Street.
- Detective Phil Acosta interviewed 41 people in the first two weeks of the investigation and found no enemies, boyfriend, or estranged husband.
- A January work order showed plumber Kevin Vaughn made two visits to repair a cracked inlet baffle on the septic tank at a property on Fieldstone Lane.

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Cold morning, single left boot balanced on a frozen mud ledge, and a body found thirty-two feet away - the only witness was a truck driver who called from a payphone; the boot then sat in an evidence locker for thirty-one years. What finally cracked open the silence was a genealogist following a property lead - how did a stray cigarette butt and a lone boot become the key to a three-decade-old murder?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the February 14, 1987 discovery at Caldwell Flats to the decades the case remained unsolved, and we track how preserved evidence and a genealogist's curiosity reopened questions no one answered for thirty-one years. Who connected the cigarette butt in Locker seven back to the missing pieces of Craig Morgan's last night?

Person: Craig Morgan
Date: February 14, 1987
Location: Caldwell Flats, Kansas
Evidence location: Locker seven, Ness County Sheriff's Department
Finder: Neil Gardner

- One left boot was found upright on a frozen mud ledge beside a culvert on State Route nine.
- Body of Craig Morgan was discovered thirty-two feet from the boot at eight twenty a.m.
- Scene temperature was eleven degrees that morning and the boot's lace was double-knotted.
- Craig Morgan was sixty-two years old and had driven the same route for nineteen years.
- Two pieces of evidence from the truck: a partial palm print on the passenger-side door frame and a cigarette butt collected and logged by Deputy Warren Polk.

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Cold morning, single left boot balanced on a frozen mud ledge, and a body found thirty-two feet away - the only witness was a truck driver who called from a payphone; the boot then sat in an evidence locker for thirty-one years. What finally cracked open the silence was a genealogist following a property lead - how did a stray cigarette butt and a lone boot become the key to a three-decade-old murder?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from the February 14, 1987 discovery at Caldwell Flats to the decades the case remained unsolved, and we track how preserved evidence and a genealogist's curiosity reopened questions no one answered for thirty-one years. Who connected the cigarette butt in Locker seven back to the missing pieces of Craig Morgan's last night?

Person: Craig Morgan
Date: February 14, 1987
Location: Caldwell Flats, Kansas
Evidence location: Locker seven, Ness County Sheriff's Department
Finder: Neil Gardner

- One left boot was found upright on a frozen mud ledge beside a culvert on State Route nine.
- Body of Craig Morgan was discovered thirty-two feet from the boot at eight twenty a.m.
- Scene temperature was eleven degrees that morning and the boot's lace was double-knotted.
- Craig Morgan was sixty-two years old and had driven the same route for nineteen years.
- Two pieces of evidence from the truck: a partial palm print on the passenger-side door frame and a cigarette butt collected and logged by Deputy Warren Polk.

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Cold January streets, a department-store bag propped against a fire hydrant, and a single navy pump size seven with a name written on a scrap of paper - a deliberate message left in 1991 that no one could explain for thirty-two years. How did one shoe in a dry bag survive relocations, a flood, and decades in cold storage to finally point to an answer no one expected?

In this episode, we walk through the moments recorded, the evidence preserved, and the people who kept the case alive across generations to see how a biological sample and an ordinary shoe reopened a closed file; what did that single pump and a refrigerated evidence locker ultimately reveal?

Person: Jean Stevens
Date: January 3, 1991 (last confirmed image), January 12, 1991 (bag found)
Location: Daleview Terrace (residence), drainage culvert off Teller Pike (body found)
Cause of death: Strangulation
Investigator: Carl Norris

- Jean Stevens was 24 years old in January 1991 and worked as a permit coordinator at the Dellwood Municipal Annex.
- On January 3, 1991 at 6:47 p.m. a lobby camera captured Jean leaving the annex; that is the last confirmed image of her alive.
- A glossy department-store bag containing a single left navy pump size 7 and a folded note with the name "Jean Stevens" was found at 6:14 a.m, on January 12, 1991.
- The body was discovered 16 days after the camera footage, in a drainage culvert off Teller Pike, about four miles east of downtown Dellwood; time of death was consistent with the evening of January 3.
- A male DNA profile was recovered from contact on Jean's coat collar in 1991, packaged and stored in a refrigerated secondary locker installed in 1988 and retained for three decades.

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Cold January streets, a department-store bag propped against a fire hydrant, and a single navy pump size seven with a name written on a scrap of paper - a deliberate message left in 1991 that no one could explain for thirty-two years. How did one shoe in a dry bag survive relocations, a flood, and decades in cold storage to finally point to an answer no one expected?

In this episode, we walk through the moments recorded, the evidence preserved, and the people who kept the case alive across generations to see how a biological sample and an ordinary shoe reopened a closed file; what did that single pump and a refrigerated evidence locker ultimately reveal?

Person: Jean Stevens
Date: January 3, 1991 (last confirmed image), January 12, 1991 (bag found)
Location: Daleview Terrace (residence), drainage culvert off Teller Pike (body found)
Cause of death: Strangulation
Investigator: Carl Norris

- Jean Stevens was 24 years old in January 1991 and worked as a permit coordinator at the Dellwood Municipal Annex.
- On January 3, 1991 at 6:47 p.m. a lobby camera captured Jean leaving the annex; that is the last confirmed image of her alive.
- A glossy department-store bag containing a single left navy pump size 7 and a folded note with the name "Jean Stevens" was found at 6:14 a.m, on January 12, 1991.
- The body was discovered 16 days after the camera footage, in a drainage culvert off Teller Pike, about four miles east of downtown Dellwood; time of death was consistent with the evening of January 3.
- A male DNA profile was recovered from contact on Jean's coat collar in 1991, packaged and stored in a refrigerated secondary locker installed in 1988 and retained for three decades.

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The idea that a single vial in a freezer could sit untouched for thirty-one years and then unlock a murder will make your stomach tighten - a hospital badge found in weeds, a detective who kept a question alive, and a preserved skin sample collected in 1991 finally meeting modern forensic genetic genealogy. Who left Judith Tate in a ditch a mile from Caldwell Flats, and how did one frozen sample become the turning point in a case cold for three decades?

In this episode, we tell the timeline of Judith Tate’s last day, the discovery of her body, and the long preservation of evidence that outlived the detective who saved it; we trace the connections from the hospital badge in the weeds to the man who lingered in investigators’ minds and ask what the preserved sample revealed when science finally caught up.

Person: Judith Tate
Date: December 12, 1991
Location: Fenwick Mill Pike, one mile outside Caldwell Flats, Indiana
Investigator: Detective Warren Cross
Evidence: Biological material under fingernails preserved in freezer for 31 years

- Judith Tate clocked out at 3:57 p.m. on December 12, 1991 and never arrived home.
- Her body was found the next morning in a ditch along Fenwick Mill Pike, 1.1 kilometers from the nearest intersection.
- The medical examiner determined cause of death as strangulation and noted biological material under her fingernails.
- Detective Warren Cross had the sample sealed and stored at the Indiana State Police laboratory in Indianapolis, where it remained for 31 years.
- A caramel-colored blazer with a Caldwell Flats Hospital badge and initials "J.T." was found in the weeds on Fenwick Mill Pike on December 20, 2022 at 6:52 a.m, by a snowplow operator.

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The idea that a single vial in a freezer could sit untouched for thirty-one years and then unlock a murder will make your stomach tighten - a hospital badge found in weeds, a detective who kept a question alive, and a preserved skin sample collected in 1991 finally meeting modern forensic genetic genealogy. Who left Judith Tate in a ditch a mile from Caldwell Flats, and how did one frozen sample become the turning point in a case cold for three decades?

In this episode, we tell the timeline of Judith Tate’s last day, the discovery of her body, and the long preservation of evidence that outlived the detective who saved it; we trace the connections from the hospital badge in the weeds to the man who lingered in investigators’ minds and ask what the preserved sample revealed when science finally caught up.

Person: Judith Tate
Date: December 12, 1991
Location: Fenwick Mill Pike, one mile outside Caldwell Flats, Indiana
Investigator: Detective Warren Cross
Evidence: Biological material under fingernails preserved in freezer for 31 years

- Judith Tate clocked out at 3:57 p.m. on December 12, 1991 and never arrived home.
- Her body was found the next morning in a ditch along Fenwick Mill Pike, 1.1 kilometers from the nearest intersection.
- The medical examiner determined cause of death as strangulation and noted biological material under her fingernails.
- Detective Warren Cross had the sample sealed and stored at the Indiana State Police laboratory in Indianapolis, where it remained for 31 years.
- A caramel-colored blazer with a Caldwell Flats Hospital badge and initials "J.T." was found in the weeds on Fenwick Mill Pike on December 20, 2022 at 6:52 a.m, by a snowplow operator.

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Fear lives in ordinary routines: Ruth Young walked the same three-mile loop before dawn for four years, wore a small white headlamp, and trusted the town’s rhythms-until a scarf knotted at her throat held a partial DNA profile that the 1993 lab could not fully read. Decades later, a plain white envelope kept in a Columbus freezer contained the missing half of the answer. Who finally connected those two pieces, and why did it take twenty-nine years?

In this episode, we follow the chronological details of the case as presented in the record: the discovery on November 14, 1993, the early morning routine Ruth kept, the initial focus on Greg Paisley, and the partial DNA recovered from the scarf. How did evidence preserved in a freezer change everything after nearly three decades?

Person: Ruth Young
Date: November 14, 1993
Location: Granger Road, Kellsford area
Detective: Lou Hester
Evidence: scarf with five-loci partial DNA profile

- Ruth was thirty-three years old when her body was found face-up in a shallow depression with her coat buttoned and scarf knotted at her throat.
- Jennifer Thorpe discovered Ruth’s body on the morning of November 14, 1993, after her truck pulled to the shoulder of Granger Road.
- Ruth had walked the same roughly three-mile route every morning at about 6:15 a.m. for four years, wearing a headlamp on dark mornings.
- Detective Lou Hester, forty years old with eleven years in homicide, began the investigation the afternoon the body was found and focused early on Greg Paisley.
- Technicians recovered a degraded partial DNA profile of five loci from the scarf in 1993, which initially fell below the laboratory threshold for identification.

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Fear lives in ordinary routines: Ruth Young walked the same three-mile loop before dawn for four years, wore a small white headlamp, and trusted the town’s rhythms-until a scarf knotted at her throat held a partial DNA profile that the 1993 lab could not fully read. Decades later, a plain white envelope kept in a Columbus freezer contained the missing half of the answer. Who finally connected those two pieces, and why did it take twenty-nine years?

In this episode, we follow the chronological details of the case as presented in the record: the discovery on November 14, 1993, the early morning routine Ruth kept, the initial focus on Greg Paisley, and the partial DNA recovered from the scarf. How did evidence preserved in a freezer change everything after nearly three decades?

Person: Ruth Young
Date: November 14, 1993
Location: Granger Road, Kellsford area
Detective: Lou Hester
Evidence: scarf with five-loci partial DNA profile

- Ruth was thirty-three years old when her body was found face-up in a shallow depression with her coat buttoned and scarf knotted at her throat.
- Jennifer Thorpe discovered Ruth’s body on the morning of November 14, 1993, after her truck pulled to the shoulder of Granger Road.
- Ruth had walked the same roughly three-mile route every morning at about 6:15 a.m. for four years, wearing a headlamp on dark mornings.
- Detective Lou Hester, forty years old with eleven years in homicide, began the investigation the afternoon the body was found and focused early on Greg Paisley.
- Technicians recovered a degraded partial DNA profile of five loci from the scarf in 1993, which initially fell below the laboratory threshold for identification.

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Fear tightens when a single object resurfaces to undo a decades-old quiet: a laminated badge stamped RHONDA BAILEY, thirty-one years of silt, but hydrology placed it in the creek only eighteen months before it was found - deliberately moved from where it belonged. Who held that badge for three decades and why was it planted in the wrong place at the wrong time?

In this episode, we tell the events surrounding Rhonda Bailey’s disappearance, the discovery of her body, and how a single piece of evidence set a chain of investigation into motion - could that reappearing badge finally point to the truth?

Person: Rhonda Bailey
Date: Disappearance October 13, 1992; Body recovered November 28, 1992
Location: Sutter Creek floodplain south of Garver, Hendrick County, Oregon
Status: Case remained unsolved for decades; evidence preserved in Oregon State Police lab
Detective: Earl Hobbs, assigned in 1992 and carried the case until his death five weeks before the breakthrough

- Badge found by Amanda Hall on Orchard Mill Road footbridge at 6:15 a.m. in October 2023
- Badge photograph visible beneath thirty-one years of silt; expiration date October 19, 1992
- Hydrologist estimated the badge entered the water roughly eighteen months before discovery
- Rhonda had volunteered Tuesday evenings 6-9 p.m. for seven years and left the hospital October 13, 1992 at approximately 9:00 p.m.
- Biological material from fingernail scrapings indicated a white male, blood type A, sealed in evidence for thirty-one years

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Fear tightens when a single object resurfaces to undo a decades-old quiet: a laminated badge stamped RHONDA BAILEY, thirty-one years of silt, but hydrology placed it in the creek only eighteen months before it was found - deliberately moved from where it belonged. Who held that badge for three decades and why was it planted in the wrong place at the wrong time?

In this episode, we tell the events surrounding Rhonda Bailey’s disappearance, the discovery of her body, and how a single piece of evidence set a chain of investigation into motion - could that reappearing badge finally point to the truth?

Person: Rhonda Bailey
Date: Disappearance October 13, 1992; Body recovered November 28, 1992
Location: Sutter Creek floodplain south of Garver, Hendrick County, Oregon
Status: Case remained unsolved for decades; evidence preserved in Oregon State Police lab
Detective: Earl Hobbs, assigned in 1992 and carried the case until his death five weeks before the breakthrough

- Badge found by Amanda Hall on Orchard Mill Road footbridge at 6:15 a.m. in October 2023
- Badge photograph visible beneath thirty-one years of silt; expiration date October 19, 1992
- Hydrologist estimated the badge entered the water roughly eighteen months before discovery
- Rhonda had volunteered Tuesday evenings 6-9 p.m. for seven years and left the hospital October 13, 1992 at approximately 9:00 p.m.
- Biological material from fingernail scrapings indicated a white male, blood type A, sealed in evidence for thirty-one years

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A lone cream-colored flat, size seven, stood upright in waist-high grass while fourteen feet away a woman lay dead and unidentified for forty years-why was one shoe placed and the other still on her foot? The missing right earring and a handwritten diner log of perfect Thursday routines add to a pattern that refused to make sense: who moved her, and why was a shoe left as a deliberate marker?

In this episode, we tell the story of what was found on September 11, 1983, how investigators followed fragments of evidence for decades, and how a DNA kit ordered for unrelated reasons and an earring in a cardboard box finally changed the case. What sequence of events turned a regular Thursday routine into a mystery that lasted four decades?

Person: Janet Hill
Date: September 11, 1983
Location: Utility easement behind Correl Street, Harnett Township, near Dayton, Ohio
Status: Unidentified for 40 years; body found strangled
Age at birth year: Born 1938

- One cream-colored flat shoe, size seven, was found standing upright in the grass with laces tied.
- The body was located fourteen feet from the shoe in a drainage ditch overgrown with sagebrush.
- Janet Hill was born in 1938 in Findlay, Ohio, and last confirmed seen on Thursday, September 1, 1983, leaving Vic's Family Restaurant at 8:00 AM.
- Investigators circulated dental records across nine states with no match; fingerprints returned no match.
- Janet was found wearing one silver earring in her left ear; the right earring was missing.

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A lone cream-colored flat, size seven, stood upright in waist-high grass while fourteen feet away a woman lay dead and unidentified for forty years-why was one shoe placed and the other still on her foot? The missing right earring and a handwritten diner log of perfect Thursday routines add to a pattern that refused to make sense: who moved her, and why was a shoe left as a deliberate marker?

In this episode, we tell the story of what was found on September 11, 1983, how investigators followed fragments of evidence for decades, and how a DNA kit ordered for unrelated reasons and an earring in a cardboard box finally changed the case. What sequence of events turned a regular Thursday routine into a mystery that lasted four decades?

Person: Janet Hill
Date: September 11, 1983
Location: Utility easement behind Correl Street, Harnett Township, near Dayton, Ohio
Status: Unidentified for 40 years; body found strangled
Age at birth year: Born 1938

- One cream-colored flat shoe, size seven, was found standing upright in the grass with laces tied.
- The body was located fourteen feet from the shoe in a drainage ditch overgrown with sagebrush.
- Janet Hill was born in 1938 in Findlay, Ohio, and last confirmed seen on Thursday, September 1, 1983, leaving Vic's Family Restaurant at 8:00 AM.
- Investigators circulated dental records across nine states with no match; fingerprints returned no match.
- Janet was found wearing one silver earring in her left ear; the right earring was missing.

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A single shoe with its laces still tied, sitting upright at the tree line eight feet from a body, stopped a passerby on the morning of August 14, 1993 - and a paper coffee cup, sealed and refrigerated for thirty-one years, held the clue that finally rewrote the case. How did a cup hidden under a low branch and preserved in a police property room become the key to solving a murder three decades later?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Tracy Andrews’ last confirmed evening at a ceramics class through the discovery at the Calvary Fellowship food pantry tree line, and we trace how preservation of evidence reshaped the investigation and its outcome. What question asked of that cup in 2022 changed everything?

Person: Tracy Andrews
Date: August 14, 1993
Location: Tree line behind Calvary Fellowship food pantry on Clement Avenue, Harlan, Ohio
Cause of death: Strangulation
Evidence preserved: Paper coffee cup sealed and refrigerated for 31 years

- Tracy Andrews was 29 years old at the time of her death.
- Gloria Mitchell called Harlan PD at 6:41 a.m. on August 14, 1993 after finding Tracy’s shoe and body.
- The shoe was found upright at the edge of the grass with the laces still tied, eight feet from the body.
- A ceramic rib tool was found near the body and did not match Parks and Recreation inventory or Tracy’s tools.
- The paper cup was located partially hidden under a low branch approximately eight feet from Tracy’s body and remained in the Harlan Police Department property room until 2024.

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A single shoe with its laces still tied, sitting upright at the tree line eight feet from a body, stopped a passerby on the morning of August 14, 1993 - and a paper coffee cup, sealed and refrigerated for thirty-one years, held the clue that finally rewrote the case. How did a cup hidden under a low branch and preserved in a police property room become the key to solving a murder three decades later?

In this episode, we follow the timeline from Tracy Andrews’ last confirmed evening at a ceramics class through the discovery at the Calvary Fellowship food pantry tree line, and we trace how preservation of evidence reshaped the investigation and its outcome. What question asked of that cup in 2022 changed everything?

Person: Tracy Andrews
Date: August 14, 1993
Location: Tree line behind Calvary Fellowship food pantry on Clement Avenue, Harlan, Ohio
Cause of death: Strangulation
Evidence preserved: Paper coffee cup sealed and refrigerated for 31 years

- Tracy Andrews was 29 years old at the time of her death.
- Gloria Mitchell called Harlan PD at 6:41 a.m. on August 14, 1993 after finding Tracy’s shoe and body.
- The shoe was found upright at the edge of the grass with the laces still tied, eight feet from the body.
- A ceramic rib tool was found near the body and did not match Parks and Recreation inventory or Tracy’s tools.
- The paper cup was located partially hidden under a low branch approximately eight feet from Tracy’s body and remained in the Harlan Police Department property room until 2024.

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A dead man's open palm held a vacuum‑sealed frozen white fish fillet, still dusted with frost crystals and bearing an intact barcode, even though the morning air was 81°F - and the fish had left a freezer within two hours. How did a frozen package travel from a working freezer to Brauer Pond and end up placed gently in a corpse’s hand, and who hid in plain sight for three decades while the answer waited in an evidence vault?

In this episode, we tell the story of Alan Petersen and the strange evidence that followed his death: his life as a longtime shop teacher, the discovery at Brauer Pond on July 14, 1991, and the detail that finally cracked the case thirty years later. What did a frost‑covered fish fillet, a retired detective’s cardboard box, and a genetic genealogist’s eleven‑week obsession reveal?

Person: Alan Petersen
Date: July 14, 1991
Location: Brauer Pond, Ohio
Status: Case cracked in October 2021
Occupation: Shop teacher at Fenwick Regional High School for 22 years

- Temperature at scene: 81 degrees Fahrenheit the morning the body was found.
- Time since death estimated: between 14 and 18 hours when discovered.
- Distance from Petersen’s rented farm to Brauer Pond: approximately 4 miles.
- Age of victim: 56 years old at time of death in summer 1991.
- Investigator detail: genetic genealogist conducted an eleven‑week inquiry that contributed to resolving the case.

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A dead man's open palm held a vacuum‑sealed frozen white fish fillet, still dusted with frost crystals and bearing an intact barcode, even though the morning air was 81°F - and the fish had left a freezer within two hours. How did a frozen package travel from a working freezer to Brauer Pond and end up placed gently in a corpse’s hand, and who hid in plain sight for three decades while the answer waited in an evidence vault?

In this episode, we tell the story of Alan Petersen and the strange evidence that followed his death: his life as a longtime shop teacher, the discovery at Brauer Pond on July 14, 1991, and the detail that finally cracked the case thirty years later. What did a frost‑covered fish fillet, a retired detective’s cardboard box, and a genetic genealogist’s eleven‑week obsession reveal?

Person: Alan Petersen
Date: July 14, 1991
Location: Brauer Pond, Ohio
Status: Case cracked in October 2021
Occupation: Shop teacher at Fenwick Regional High School for 22 years

- Temperature at scene: 81 degrees Fahrenheit the morning the body was found.
- Time since death estimated: between 14 and 18 hours when discovered.
- Distance from Petersen’s rented farm to Brauer Pond: approximately 4 miles.
- Age of victim: 56 years old at time of death in summer 1991.
- Investigator detail: genetic genealogist conducted an eleven‑week inquiry that contributed to resolving the case.

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A single dry scrap of paper inside a canvas sneaker should have been impossible - Nicole Erickson lay face-up in two feet of creek water, her right shoe still double-knotted and a torn half-sheet folded twice tucked into its toe. Who could have opened her tightly knotted shoe, placed that contractor's estimate half-sheet inside, and left it completely dry while the shoe sat in the creek all weekend?

In this episode, we tell how a missing shoe, a brown 1988 Honda Civic with keys in the ignition, and a dry piece of paper turned a small-town death into a twenty-seven-year mystery - and how a six-foot whiteboard, three dry-erase marker colors, and a DNA test eventually shifted the case. Who placed the paper in Nicole's shoe, and what did that impossible dryness conceal?

Person: Nicole Erickson
Age: 22
Date found: June 14, 1991
Location: Western bank of Osage Fork, near Harlan, Missouri
Missing item: Left shoe never recovered

- Nicole Erickson was found face-up in about two feet of water on the western bank of Osage Fork.
- Her right white canvas sneaker was still laced and double-knotted as she always did.
- A torn half-sheet of contractor's estimate pad was folded twice and placed inside the toe of that right shoe and was dry at the center.
- A brown 1988 Honda Civic with keys in the ignition was discovered behind the Route Nine gas station roughly four miles from the creek.
- Detective Lou Henning questioned Aaron Cole for eleven hours but the prosecutor declined to charge him and the case went cold by spring 1993.

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A single dry scrap of paper inside a canvas sneaker should have been impossible - Nicole Erickson lay face-up in two feet of creek water, her right shoe still double-knotted and a torn half-sheet folded twice tucked into its toe. Who could have opened her tightly knotted shoe, placed that contractor's estimate half-sheet inside, and left it completely dry while the shoe sat in the creek all weekend?

In this episode, we tell how a missing shoe, a brown 1988 Honda Civic with keys in the ignition, and a dry piece of paper turned a small-town death into a twenty-seven-year mystery - and how a six-foot whiteboard, three dry-erase marker colors, and a DNA test eventually shifted the case. Who placed the paper in Nicole's shoe, and what did that impossible dryness conceal?

Person: Nicole Erickson
Age: 22
Date found: June 14, 1991
Location: Western bank of Osage Fork, near Harlan, Missouri
Missing item: Left shoe never recovered

- Nicole Erickson was found face-up in about two feet of water on the western bank of Osage Fork.
- Her right white canvas sneaker was still laced and double-knotted as she always did.
- A torn half-sheet of contractor's estimate pad was folded twice and placed inside the toe of that right shoe and was dry at the center.
- A brown 1988 Honda Civic with keys in the ignition was discovered behind the Route Nine gas station roughly four miles from the creek.
- Detective Lou Henning questioned Aaron Cole for eleven hours but the prosecutor declined to charge him and the case went cold by spring 1993.

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The discovery of a pristine gold-toned watch in a limestone crevice after twenty-nine years contradicted the case file and reopened a disappearance that ended in asphyxiation; how did a watch bought the month Holly Ward died, and found forty minutes from her body, become the key to breaking a case no one touched for over two decades? What connection did a tiny DNA fragment on an earring clasp have to a retired suspect who nearly walked free?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Holly Ward’s May 20, 1993 disappearance to the May 14, 2022 recovery of the watch and the 2022 genetic genealogy breakthrough, showing how one overlooked detail redirected the investigation and asking whether the original misdirection can be fully explained.

Person: Holly Ward
Date: May 20, 1993 (disappearance); September 1993 (body recovered); May 14, 2022 (watch found)
Location: Pickett County, Tennessee; body recovered roughly four miles from where watch was found
Status: Watch discovered reopened case; DNA profile uploaded March 2022 yielding 43 matches

- Holly Ward left work at 5:45 p.m. on May 20, 1993 and never made her regular Thursday evening choir and gardening routines.
- Holly’s silver 1989 Civic was found May 21, 1993 on Route 111 with the driver’s door open, engine cold, and purse on the passenger seat.
- Holly’s body was recovered in September 1993 in a limestone sink; cause of death recorded as asphyxiation; no watch was listed in the recovery inventory.
- On May 14, 2022, Jean Fleming found a gold-toned rectangular watch in a dry limestone crevice about 60 feet into the tree line; the watch had an expansion bracelet and an unscratched crystal.
- In March 2022 Gordon Williams uploaded a DNA profile extracted from an earring clasp to a public genealogy database and received 43 matches, none closer than a third cousin.

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The discovery of a pristine gold-toned watch in a limestone crevice after twenty-nine years contradicted the case file and reopened a disappearance that ended in asphyxiation; how did a watch bought the month Holly Ward died, and found forty minutes from her body, become the key to breaking a case no one touched for over two decades? What connection did a tiny DNA fragment on an earring clasp have to a retired suspect who nearly walked free?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Holly Ward’s May 20, 1993 disappearance to the May 14, 2022 recovery of the watch and the 2022 genetic genealogy breakthrough, showing how one overlooked detail redirected the investigation and asking whether the original misdirection can be fully explained.

Person: Holly Ward
Date: May 20, 1993 (disappearance); September 1993 (body recovered); May 14, 2022 (watch found)
Location: Pickett County, Tennessee; body recovered roughly four miles from where watch was found
Status: Watch discovered reopened case; DNA profile uploaded March 2022 yielding 43 matches

- Holly Ward left work at 5:45 p.m. on May 20, 1993 and never made her regular Thursday evening choir and gardening routines.
- Holly’s silver 1989 Civic was found May 21, 1993 on Route 111 with the driver’s door open, engine cold, and purse on the passenger seat.
- Holly’s body was recovered in September 1993 in a limestone sink; cause of death recorded as asphyxiation; no watch was listed in the recovery inventory.
- On May 14, 2022, Jean Fleming found a gold-toned rectangular watch in a dry limestone crevice about 60 feet into the tree line; the watch had an expansion bracelet and an unscratched crystal.
- In March 2022 Gordon Williams uploaded a DNA profile extracted from an earring clasp to a public genealogy database and received 43 matches, none closer than a third cousin.

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A bright brass Master Lock, a fresh spade-bit hole and a running avocado-green Kenmore chest hid a body for up to twenty-two months - and the lock was bought four blocks from the victim’s workplace. How did a precise, routine life end mid-crossword and remain undiscovered until a septic contractor opened that freezer?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Wendy Fleming’s organized life and October 4 last-seen date through the April 14 discovery in a rented farmhouse on Kellum Road, and we ask how evidence like a new padlock and a drilled power hole reshaped the search for answers.

Person: Wendy Fleming
Date last seen: October 4, 1989
Date reported missing: October 9, 1989
Date body discovered: April 14, 1991
Location of body: rented farmhouse on Kellum Road, Tate County, Indiana

- Wendy Fleming was sixty-one years old when her body was found.
- The freezer’s padlock was a brass Master Lock purchased four blocks from Wendy’s workplace.
- The body had been wrapped in contractor-grade plastic sealed with electrical tape at roughly six-inch intervals.
- Pathologist estimated the body was placed in the freezer between 14 and 22 months before discovery.
- Deputies arrived to cut the lock and lift the lid at 11:15 a.m, on April 14, 1991.

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A bright brass Master Lock, a fresh spade-bit hole and a running avocado-green Kenmore chest hid a body for up to twenty-two months - and the lock was bought four blocks from the victim’s workplace. How did a precise, routine life end mid-crossword and remain undiscovered until a septic contractor opened that freezer?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Wendy Fleming’s organized life and October 4 last-seen date through the April 14 discovery in a rented farmhouse on Kellum Road, and we ask how evidence like a new padlock and a drilled power hole reshaped the search for answers.

Person: Wendy Fleming
Date last seen: October 4, 1989
Date reported missing: October 9, 1989
Date body discovered: April 14, 1991
Location of body: rented farmhouse on Kellum Road, Tate County, Indiana

- Wendy Fleming was sixty-one years old when her body was found.
- The freezer’s padlock was a brass Master Lock purchased four blocks from Wendy’s workplace.
- The body had been wrapped in contractor-grade plastic sealed with electrical tape at roughly six-inch intervals.
- Pathologist estimated the body was placed in the freezer between 14 and 22 months before discovery.
- Deputies arrived to cut the lock and lift the lid at 11:15 a.m, on April 14, 1991.

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A man vanished after leaving his apartment without keys or wallet, his Seiko watch later found face-up on a rock with the date wheel set to the fourth - photographed in situ by a birdwatcher who touched nothing. Thirty-two years and a sealed evidence box later, a skin cell on the watch band and volunteer genealogy reopened a case that had four hundred hours of interviews, six interrogations, and no charges; who placed the watch and why?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Mark Sawyer’s last routine morning run to the sealed archive and the new lab hit that restarted the inquiry, asking whether the breakthrough evidence finally explains how he ended up dead three-quarters of a mile from his apartment.

Person: Mark Sawyer
Date: March 4, 1991
Location: Millrace Road woodlot
Age: 24 years, 2 months, 11 days
Investigator: Art Phelps

- The Seiko watch was found face-up on a flat rock on March 14, 1991, with the date wheel reading "4".
- The birdwatcher, Duane Whitaker, photographed the watch where it lay and did not touch it.
- Searchers found Mark’s body on March 18, 1991, in a shallow depression partially concealed under cut brush.
- Detective Art Phelps logged approximately 400 hours of interviews in the first six months and conducted six interrogations with no charges.
- Mark had run the same two-mile loop every morning at 6:15 for three years and left his key on the hook and his wallet on the kitchen counter on the morning he disappeared.

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A man vanished after leaving his apartment without keys or wallet, his Seiko watch later found face-up on a rock with the date wheel set to the fourth - photographed in situ by a birdwatcher who touched nothing. Thirty-two years and a sealed evidence box later, a skin cell on the watch band and volunteer genealogy reopened a case that had four hundred hours of interviews, six interrogations, and no charges; who placed the watch and why?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from Mark Sawyer’s last routine morning run to the sealed archive and the new lab hit that restarted the inquiry, asking whether the breakthrough evidence finally explains how he ended up dead three-quarters of a mile from his apartment.

Person: Mark Sawyer
Date: March 4, 1991
Location: Millrace Road woodlot
Age: 24 years, 2 months, 11 days
Investigator: Art Phelps

- The Seiko watch was found face-up on a flat rock on March 14, 1991, with the date wheel reading "4".
- The birdwatcher, Duane Whitaker, photographed the watch where it lay and did not touch it.
- Searchers found Mark’s body on March 18, 1991, in a shallow depression partially concealed under cut brush.
- Detective Art Phelps logged approximately 400 hours of interviews in the first six months and conducted six interrogations with no charges.
- Mark had run the same two-mile loop every morning at 6:15 for three years and left his key on the hook and his wallet on the kitchen counter on the morning he disappeared.

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Cold and precise: a single black dress pump stood upright on the second interior stair at 6:20 AM on February 9, 1993, while the temperature outside was eleven degrees Fahrenheit-one DNA swab taken beneath the victim’s fingernails in 1993 sat sealed in a county freezer for 29 years, 3 months, and 11 days. Who did Brenda Schultz let walk back through her door that night, and how did a forgotten sample finally change everything?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the delivery logged at 4:17 PM on February 8 to the discovery at 6:27 AM on February 9, describing the preserved evidence, the key witnesses, and the long dormancy of a crucial DNA profile that awaited the right question. Could a tube in a freezer and a modern genetic upload break a case that stumped investigators for decades?

Person: Brenda Schultz
Date: February 8-9, 1993
Location: Millbrook Avenue townhome
Evidence: DNA swab from beneath fingernails
Duration of storage: 29 years, 3 months, 11 days

- Brenda Schultz was 48 years old and had worked as a billing coordinator at Crestfield Regional Medical Center for 11 years.
- A heating-oil delivery was logged at 4:17 PM on February 8 under a specific route number, with the driver gaining interior access.
- Police were called at 6:27 AM on February 9 after 14-year-old paper carrier Terry Rafferty found the storm door open at 6:20 AM.
- The temperature at discovery was 11 degrees Fahrenheit and a single black dress pump was found standing upright on the second interior stair.
- Seven witnesses placed Ray Ockert at Hannigan’s Tap for roughly four or more hours the evening of February 8, providing an alibi investigators noted.

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Cold and precise: a single black dress pump stood upright on the second interior stair at 6:20 AM on February 9, 1993, while the temperature outside was eleven degrees Fahrenheit-one DNA swab taken beneath the victim’s fingernails in 1993 sat sealed in a county freezer for 29 years, 3 months, and 11 days. Who did Brenda Schultz let walk back through her door that night, and how did a forgotten sample finally change everything?

In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the delivery logged at 4:17 PM on February 8 to the discovery at 6:27 AM on February 9, describing the preserved evidence, the key witnesses, and the long dormancy of a crucial DNA profile that awaited the right question. Could a tube in a freezer and a modern genetic upload break a case that stumped investigators for decades?

Person: Brenda Schultz
Date: February 8-9, 1993
Location: Millbrook Avenue townhome
Evidence: DNA swab from beneath fingernails
Duration of storage: 29 years, 3 months, 11 days

- Brenda Schultz was 48 years old and had worked as a billing coordinator at Crestfield Regional Medical Center for 11 years.
- A heating-oil delivery was logged at 4:17 PM on February 8 under a specific route number, with the driver gaining interior access.
- Police were called at 6:27 AM on February 9 after 14-year-old paper carrier Terry Rafferty found the storm door open at 6:20 AM.
- The temperature at discovery was 11 degrees Fahrenheit and a single black dress pump was found standing upright on the second interior stair.
- Seven witnesses placed Ray Ockert at Hannigan’s Tap for roughly four or more hours the evening of February 8, providing an alibi investigators noted.

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A severed left hand with a gold claddagh ring still on the finger, its skin measurably warm in air at twelve degrees below freezing - and the woman it belonged to, a thirty-two-year-old nurse, found frozen in the creek bed two days later. How did a hand stay warm on a culvert grate at 4:50 a.m., and why did a gas station receipt timestamped 8:51 p.m. the night before sit folded under a car floor mat for thirty-two years without being followed up? What single overlooked thread finally unraveled this long silence?

In this episode, we lay out the facts recorded across the original investigation files and the cold-case review that began in 2018, tracing Kathleen Collins’s last confirmed movements, the discovery on Linden Creek Road, and the evidence that sat untouched for decades. We then follow Detective Roy Barnes as he reads a boxed file, finds the missing leads, and asks the questions that earlier investigators missed.

Person: Kathleen Collins
Age: 32
Date: January 9, 1987 (hand found at 4:50 a.m.; last seen January 8 at 9:15 p.m.)
Location: Linden Creek Road culvert; Elm Cross Road residence; car found on Linden Creek Road
Occupation: Nurse at Millbrook Regional Medical Center
Status: Body recovered two days later, strangled; amputation occurred after death

- The hand was found on an iron grate at 4:50 a.m. by snowplow operator Craig Riley in air twelve degrees below freezing.
- A gold claddagh ring remained on the severed left hand; Riley touched it twice because he did not believe the first touch.
- Kathleen’s car, a 1983 Honda Civic nicknamed "Gerald," was found cold on the gravel shoulder of Linden Creek Road less than 400 meters from the culvert.
- Under the passenger-side floor mat, investigators found a gas station receipt timestamped 8:51 p.m. on January 8 for a single bottle of ginger ale that Kathleen did not drink.
- Detective Roy Barnes reopened the case in spring 2018 at age 44 and read a cardboard box of files donated by Claire Nolan that had sat unopened for four years.

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A severed left hand with a gold claddagh ring still on the finger, its skin measurably warm in air at twelve degrees below freezing - and the woman it belonged to, a thirty-two-year-old nurse, found frozen in the creek bed two days later. How did a hand stay warm on a culvert grate at 4:50 a.m., and why did a gas station receipt timestamped 8:51 p.m. the night before sit folded under a car floor mat for thirty-two years without being followed up? What single overlooked thread finally unraveled this long silence?

In this episode, we lay out the facts recorded across the original investigation files and the cold-case review that began in 2018, tracing Kathleen Collins’s last confirmed movements, the discovery on Linden Creek Road, and the evidence that sat untouched for decades. We then follow Detective Roy Barnes as he reads a boxed file, finds the missing leads, and asks the questions that earlier investigators missed.

Person: Kathleen Collins
Age: 32
Date: January 9, 1987 (hand found at 4:50 a.m.; last seen January 8 at 9:15 p.m.)
Location: Linden Creek Road culvert; Elm Cross Road residence; car found on Linden Creek Road
Occupation: Nurse at Millbrook Regional Medical Center
Status: Body recovered two days later, strangled; amputation occurred after death

- The hand was found on an iron grate at 4:50 a.m. by snowplow operator Craig Riley in air twelve degrees below freezing.
- A gold claddagh ring remained on the severed left hand; Riley touched it twice because he did not believe the first touch.
- Kathleen’s car, a 1983 Honda Civic nicknamed "Gerald," was found cold on the gravel shoulder of Linden Creek Road less than 400 meters from the culvert.
- Under the passenger-side floor mat, investigators found a gas station receipt timestamped 8:51 p.m. on January 8 for a single bottle of ginger ale that Kathleen did not drink.
- Detective Roy Barnes reopened the case in spring 2018 at age 44 and read a cardboard box of files donated by Claire Nolan that had sat unopened for four years.

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Cold air, a back stoop, and an envelope left on top of the overnight ice - someone returned to Amanda Murphy’s house after she was strangled and placed a blank folded sheet inside a plain business envelope; why leave a message with all language removed? Who came back to the scene and why did they undo what had already been done?

In this episode, we follow the case file details and the three unresolved threads that kept the investigation alive for decades: an unfamiliar dark half-ton pickup, a fired contract worker named Wade Simpson, and Item fourteen-B - the blank envelope left on the frozen stoop. Which of these leads explains the return to the house after the murder?

Person: Amanda Murphy
Date: December 10-11, 1993
Location: Dellwood, Ohio
Item: Item fourteen-B (plain business envelope with one folded blank sheet)
Investigator: Connie Briggs

- Amanda Murphy was 52 years old and had lived in Dellwood for 11 years.
- Time of death was placed between 8 and 11 PM on December 10, 1993; found 12-14 hours later.
- Temperature in Dellwood had dropped to 18 degrees the night of the murder.
- The envelope remained in the county evidence freezer for 31 years.
- A neighbor reported an unfamiliar dark half-ton pickup with a cracked left taillight parked near Amanda’s driveway around 7-8 PM.

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Cold air, a back stoop, and an envelope left on top of the overnight ice - someone returned to Amanda Murphy’s house after she was strangled and placed a blank folded sheet inside a plain business envelope; why leave a message with all language removed? Who came back to the scene and why did they undo what had already been done?

In this episode, we follow the case file details and the three unresolved threads that kept the investigation alive for decades: an unfamiliar dark half-ton pickup, a fired contract worker named Wade Simpson, and Item fourteen-B - the blank envelope left on the frozen stoop. Which of these leads explains the return to the house after the murder?

Person: Amanda Murphy
Date: December 10-11, 1993
Location: Dellwood, Ohio
Item: Item fourteen-B (plain business envelope with one folded blank sheet)
Investigator: Connie Briggs

- Amanda Murphy was 52 years old and had lived in Dellwood for 11 years.
- Time of death was placed between 8 and 11 PM on December 10, 1993; found 12-14 hours later.
- Temperature in Dellwood had dropped to 18 degrees the night of the murder.
- The envelope remained in the county evidence freezer for 31 years.
- A neighbor reported an unfamiliar dark half-ton pickup with a cracked left taillight parked near Amanda’s driveway around 7-8 PM.

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